Oceanic History

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic History

scholarly journals From the Cape to Canton: The Dutch Indian Ocean World, 1600-1800 — A Littoral Census

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Vink
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Tidal Waves ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Oceanic History

As an exercise in trans-oceanic history, this article focuses on the Dutch IndianOcean World in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the Dutch EastIndia Company or VOC’s permanent colony at Cape Town, South Africa, inthe Far West to its seasonal trading factory at Canton (Guangzhou), in the FarEast. It argues that the ‘seismic change’ after 1760 noted by Michael Pearsonand associated with the British move inland from their Bengal ‘bridgehead’should be extended to the contemporary polycentric Dutch expansion intothe interior of, most notably, South Africa, Ceylon, Java, and Eastern Indonesia.Demographic measuring points include the number of Dutch citizens andsubjects, comprising European settlers, mixed peoples, and indigenous populations; and: the size and composition of the population of central nodal places in the Dutch Indian Ocean thalassocratic network in the late seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. By the end of the period, both ‘John Company’(EIC) and ‘Jan Kompenie’ (VOC) effectively were, to some extent, reversingthe colonial gaze inland turning from maritime merchants into landlords andtax collectors. These seismic changes with multiple epicenters were the harbinger of tidal waves about to sweep both the littoral and interior of the modern Indian Ocean World.

Sailors

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
Maritime Labor ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Oceanic History ◽  
Political Radicalism

European overseas expansion and the processes of early modern globalization depended on the labor of sailors. It is therefore not surprising that they are among the most thoroughly studied occupational groups of the early modern world, especially as their historical importance is reflected in a relative abundance of archival source material. Legal records of various kinds have proven an especially rich source that has allowed historians to recover in remarkable detail the lives of early modern sailors as they crisscrossed oceans and imperial jurisdictions, moving back and forth between ship and shore, switching from the fisheries to the merchant marine, and on to naval service and back again. As one of the first predominantly wage-dependent groups of workers in the emerging capitalist world-economy, sailors were subject to an unusually complex constellation of forces that together provided the structure of the international maritime labor market, including the interaction of the push and pull of demand and supply with the multiple and overlapping coercive recruitment systems that in wartime funneled mariners by the tens of thousands onto the gundecks of Europe’s burgeoning war-fleets. But scholarly interest has not only been stimulated by the fact that sailors sailed the ships that projected European imperial aggression overseas, and then carried people, commodities, and ideas back and forth across the oceans. Historians have also been fascinated by the peculiar culture that emerged below deck and in port cities around the world, including its characteristic cosmopolitanism, political radicalism, and sexual libertinism. The titles listed in this bibliography highlight some of the most prominent studies on these and other subjects, but interested researchers will want to consult other Oxford Bibliographies articles as well, including Oceanic History, Ships and Shipping, Piracy, Smuggling, and The Maritime Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions.

GLACIAL AND OCEANIC HISTORY OF THE POLAR NORTH ATLANTIC MARGINS: AN OVERVIEW

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDERS ELVERHØI ◽  
JULIAN A. DOWDESWELL ◽  
SVEND FUNDER ◽  
JAN MANGERUD ◽  
RUEDIGER STEIN
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oceanic History

The Many Voyages of Fateh Al-Khayr: Unfurling the Gulf in the Age of Oceanic History

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-412
Author(s):  
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Oceanic History

AbstractIn this article, I make the claim that the time has come to re-situate the Gulf historically as part of the Indian Ocean world rather than the terrestrial Middle East. I explore the historical potential of thinking “transregionally” – of what it means to more fully weave the history of the Gulf into that of the Indian Ocean, and what the ramifications are for orienting it away from the terrestrially-grounded literature in which it has long been situated. The promise of an oceanic history, I argue, is both academic and political: first, it opens up the possibilities of new narratives for the Gulf’s past, suggesting new periodizations, fruitful avenues of historical inquiry, and new readings of old sources. But more than that, an oceanic history of the Gulf allows historians to push against the discourses of nativism that have pervaded the public sphere in the Gulf States.

scholarly journals Exotic terranes, late Paleozoic to early Mesozoic fossils and circum-Pacific events

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 277-277
Author(s):  
George D. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Benthic Invertebrate ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Mesozoic ◽  
Marine Fossils ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
North American Craton ◽  
Invertebrate Fossils ◽  
Oceanic History

In addition to the breakup of Pangea, other major events occurring in the ancient Pacific during late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic time were the development and dispersal of exotic terranes which now characterize large portions of the eastern and western Pacific margins. While the terrane concept made sense out of the geologic crazy quiltwork pattern of these regions, considerable uncertainties still exist concerning terrane origins and their paleogeographic histories. Did terranes of the eastern and western pacific merely border Pangea or did they once exist within far-flung reaches of the ancient Pacific Ocean? Paleontology is now exploring and seeking answers to such issues based on benthic invertebrate fossils.Like examples in the western Pacific rim of Asia, the American Cordillera contains volcanic terranes with fossil content and history quite different from coeval rocks of the adjacent craton. Some terranes may have developed close to ancient North America, but others show evidence of having existed in settings far-removed from the craton. Over time, some terranes could have experienced considerable geographic displacement via tectonic processes (faulting, rift volcanism, seafloor spreading).Many terranes experienced protracted volcanic episodes of oceanic history during Permian and Triassic time. Terrane amalgamations occurred during Triassic and Jurassic time, and later in the Mesozoic were followed by accretion to the North American Craton. Some terranes such as Quesnellia, Cache Creek, Stikine, Wallowa, Eastern Klamath, and Wrangellia yield excellent benthic marine fossils—many of tropical Tethyan derivation, but other fossil assemblages are of mixed paleogeographic affiliations. Two island arc terranes, Stikinia and Wallowa, contribute to evolutionary and biogeographic issues with Triassic and Jurassic, tropical to temperate marine fossils. These include calcareous algae, sponges and corals occurring in reef sequences which can be related to better known examples from Asia and the former Tethys region. Continuing paleontological investigations into fossils from exotic terranes of the Cordilleran region, offer promise in the resolution of late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic circum-Pacific events and in the attainment of unified views of global paleogeography.

scholarly journals Maritime—Aquatic; Territorial—Territoriality: Tracing Michael N. Pearson’s Work on the Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Rila Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Maritime History ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Oceanic History

This essay traces Michael Pearson’s work from writing maritime history to a more inclusive oceanic history, and also his later interest in water histories. It evokes Michael’s nostalgic remembering of the littoral and his condemnation of the territorialisation of the shore and the seas from the 1990s that changed its nature radically. It argues that Michael’s notion of territoriality remains unfinished because he ignored the flows of global capital that re-ordered territoriality.

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