Tracks on the Ocean - A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

"Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood and accounted for routes of travel over the ocean. Focusing on the representation of sea journeys in the Western world from the early sixteenth century to the present, Sara Caputo argues that the depiction of these lines is inextricable from European imperialism, the rise of modernity, and processes of globalization. She recounts the history of ocean tracks through an array of colorful stories and characters, well-known and surprising, from the expeditions of Captain James Cook to Pacific Islanders' mapping of currents to the clouds of exhaust fumes left by ocean liners"--

About the author

Sara Caputo is a senior research fellow and director of studies in history at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Caputo, Sara Caputo
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2024
• EAN: 9780226837925
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83792-5
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, TRANSPORTATION / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Human Geography, Transport: general interest