The integrated chapters in this book authored by prominent scholars together illuminate the many facets of Lowenthal s biography and written works. This book comes with an updated Editor s introduction and a new afterword by Charles Sumarez-Smith. It was originally pu... Lees meer.

John Kerrigan s unique study of 17th-century anglophone literature explores remarkable work produced in Wales Scotland and Ireland and shows how preoccupied Shakespeare Milton and Marvell were with the interactions between the peoples of the British-Irish archipelag... Lees meer.

This book traces the development and subsequent implementation of the policy of plantation from the mid-sixteenth through to the early seventeenth century focusing specifically on the North Channel context. By examining why plantation emerged as a policy within the n... Lees meer.

Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space and more water space than perhaps any other country in the w... Lees meer.

Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands archipelag... Lees meer.

Addresses issues related to maritime boundaries and security marine safety inter-island shipping the development of the archipelagic concept in international law marine conservation illegal fishing and the place of the sea in national and regional identity.... Lees meer.

Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking takes as point of departure the insights of Antonio Ben tez Rojo Derek Walcott and Edouard Glissant on how to conceptualize the Caribbean as a space in which networks of islands are constitutive of a particular epistemology or way of... Lees meer.

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David Lowenthal was well known for his historical and geographical contribution to conservation and environmental thinking his understanding and appreciation of landscape and his critical public and scholarly contribution to heritage debates as a founder of heritage s... Lees meer.

The Geneva Conference of 1958 building upon the groundwork of the International Law Commission of the United Nations shaped a rough structure for a 20th Century Law of the Seas and for mulated the effort in four major international conventions. It is a truism that t... Lees meer.

In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not result in the decolonization of the territory. From the late 1940s to the 1960s international anti-colonialism interacted with regional... Lees meer.

This anthology explores the archipelagic as both a specific and a generalizable geo-historical and cultural formation occurring across various planetary spaces including. the Mediterranean and Aegean seas the Caribbean basin the Malay archipelago Oceania and the c... Lees meer.

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation to better reflect its claims to archipelagoes in the Pacific and Caribbean. Conventional narratives describe the U... Lees meer.

Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet since the late twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space and more water space than perhaps any other country in the wo... Lees meer.

The integrated chapters in this book authored by prominent scholars together illuminate the many facets of Lowenthal s biography and written works. This book comes with an updated Editor s introduction and a new afterword by Charles Sumarez-Smith. It was originally pu... Lees meer.