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# 7 WELT leaderboard nonfiction 2018
Highpoints of over 2,000 years of European maritime cultural history
A presentation featuring over 400 illustrations spanning the centuries
The acute topicality of a profound non-fictional book: the flight of refugees across the seas to Europe, the exploitation of sea resources
39,90 €
Europe and the Sea
The history and culture of Europe has been decisively shaped by the exploration and use of the seas surrounding Europe. This catalogue book reflects the significance of the sea as a space of rule and trade for Europeans, as bridge and border, as resource and a place of longing. The book also reviews the changing perception of the sea in the arts.
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Europe is a maritime continent: measured by the length of its coasts and its total size, none of the five continental masses on the planet has more points of contact with the seas than Europe. The importance of the sea for the development of European civilisation is illustrated by the themes of myths, shipbuilding and seafaring, rule of the seas, European coastal trade, expansion, the slave trade, migration, the maritime global economy, resources, oceanography, tourism, and the artistic perception of the sea. Thirteen themes, each linked to a port city, range from Antiquity to the present day and demonstrate that the domination of the seas was a central component of European power politics for centuries.
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Essays by E. Baltrusch, B. Belge, R. Crowley, G. Elligsen, K. Gualdé, A. Haaland, R. Hachtmann, L. Heerten, A. Kube, O. Mörke, M. North, C. Pagenstecher, D. Richter, D. Röhrlich, S. Rinke, P. de Souza, U. Wolff-Thomson
448 pages, 301 colour illustrations, 114 b/w
21 x 28 cm, hardcover
448 pages, 301 colour illustrations, 114 b/w
21 x 28 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3016-4
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Berlin
| Deutsches Historisches Museum
Keywords
Sea, maritime, seafaring, painting, paintings, refugees, mediterranean sea
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