This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose. INDICE: PART I: TRANSNATIONALISM AND ENVIRONMENT.Desert Islands: Europe's Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape; .A.Siewers. Subsistence Whaling and the Western North Atlantic: Norsemen, Basques, and Whale Use; .V.Szabo .Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment; .T.Haine. PART II: COLONIALISM.The Manx Sea Kings and the Western Oceans:The Late Norse Isle of Man in its North Atlantic context, 1079-1265;.A.McDonald. More Savage than the Sword?: Logistics in the Medieval Atlantic Theatre of War; .D.Beougher .Into the Atlantic or Into the Mediterranean: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries; .K.DeVries.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-12083-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 08/06/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido