Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 Tapa blanda - 2015

University of Minnesota Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

2015 1st paper edition and printing with full number line in new condition .

Paperback / softback. New. Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon makers, and many others. Through coming to terms… Leer más

Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.