The World's Oceans
Geography, History, and Environment
Published on 26. July 2018
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-1-4408-4351-8 (ISBN)
Description
This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.
The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a one-stop resource that describes in-depth the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans and identifies their importance, today and throughout history. Essays address the subject areas of oceans and seas in world culture, fishing and shipping industries through history, ocean exploration, and climate change and oceans.
The book also presents dozens of entries covering a breadth of topics on human culture, the environment, history, and current issues as they relate to the oceans and ocean life. Sample entries provide detailed information on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle, Coral Reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ice Melt, Myths and Legends, Piracy, and Whaling. Contributions to the work come from top researchers in the fields of history and maritime studies, including Paul D'Arcy, John Gillis, Tom Hoogervorst, Michael North, and Lincoln Paine. The volume highlights the numerous ways in which Earth's oceans have influenced culture and society, from the earliest seafaring civilizations to the future of the planet.
The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a one-stop resource that describes in-depth the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans and identifies their importance, today and throughout history. Essays address the subject areas of oceans and seas in world culture, fishing and shipping industries through history, ocean exploration, and climate change and oceans.
The book also presents dozens of entries covering a breadth of topics on human culture, the environment, history, and current issues as they relate to the oceans and ocean life. Sample entries provide detailed information on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle, Coral Reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ice Melt, Myths and Legends, Piracy, and Whaling. Contributions to the work come from top researchers in the fields of history and maritime studies, including Paul D'Arcy, John Gillis, Tom Hoogervorst, Michael North, and Lincoln Paine. The volume highlights the numerous ways in which Earth's oceans have influenced culture and society, from the earliest seafaring civilizations to the future of the planet.
Reviews / Votes
This single volume is a welcome addition to the stable of science materials for a wide audience, given the paucity of works on oceans and human societies. . . . The coverage is broad rather than deep, making it well suited for the general reader whose interest in the ocean may be piqued by recent weather trends. * Booklist, Starred Review * A solid selection . . . for general readers, high school students, and undergraduates trawling for oceanic facts. * Library Journal * The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment will be of interest in all types of libraries-public, academic, high school-for its accessible text and its content. A sturdy hardcover binding will stand up well to repeated use by patrons. The work is probably best placed in the circulating collection, due the length of the essays and the interconnectedness of the topics explored in the two sections. * ARBA * Part history, part geography, part marine science, and entirely fascinating, this wide-ranging reference work covers everything about our oceans, from the floating plastic debris to the darkest depths of the benthic zone. . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate and graduate students. * Choice *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
47 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1028 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-4351-8 (9781440843518)
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E-Book
07/2018
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Persons
Rainer F. Buschmann is professor and founding faculty member in the history program at the California State University Channel Islands.
Lance Nolde is assistant professor in the history program at California State University Channel Islands.
Lance Nolde is assistant professor in the history program at California State University Channel Islands.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Thematic Essays
The Arctic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Southern Ocean
Oceans and Seas in World Culture
The Changing Nature of Ocean Boundaries
The Shipping Industry
Ocean Exploration
Environmental Issues and the World's Oceans
Part II: Topical Entries
Adriatic Sea
Age of Sail
Antikythera Wreck
Aquaculture
Art and the Sea
Atlantic Galleon Exchange
Atlantis
Atocha Wreck
Austronesians
Beachcombers (Transculturites)
Belitung Wreck
Bermuda Triangle
Bikini Atoll (Nuclear Pacific)
Burial at Sea
Carbon Cycle
Celestial Navigation
Climate Change
Coastal Erosion and Deposition
The Columbian Exchange
Commodities
Cook, James (1728-1779)
Coral Reefs
Coriolis Effect
Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997)
Cross-Cultural Encounters
Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524)
Deep Sea Exploration
Earle, Sylvia (1935-)
El Nino/La Nina
Estuaries
Exclusive Economic Zone
Fortified Wines (Port and Madeira)
Glaciers
Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645)
Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002)
Hokule'a
Hurricanes and Typhoons
Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500)
Ice Melt
Islands
Law of the Sea
Literature and the Sea
Little Ice Age
Littoral
Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521)
The Manila Galleon
Marine Pollution
Maritime Archaeology
Maritime Deities
Maritime Empires
Maritime Organizations
Maritime Trade
Mediterranean Sea
Mermaids
MH370
Moby-Dick
Mu (Continent of)
Music and Seafarers
Myths and Legends
Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Navigation
Nor'easter
Northwest Passage
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Currents
Ocean Tides
Panama Canal
Piailug, Mau (1932-2010)
Piracy
Plate Tectonics
Poseidon/Neptune
Reefs
Salinity
Sargasso Sea
Sea Ice
Sea Level Rise
Sea Monsters
The Sea Peoples
Sharks
The South China Sea
Suez Canal
Surfing
Terra Australis Incognita
Thalassocracy
Tomol
Tsunami
Tupaia (c. 1725-1770)
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The Vikings
Warships: North American Colonial Wars
Waves
Whales and Whaling
Zheng He (1371-c. 1430)
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Part I: Thematic Essays
The Arctic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Southern Ocean
Oceans and Seas in World Culture
The Changing Nature of Ocean Boundaries
The Shipping Industry
Ocean Exploration
Environmental Issues and the World's Oceans
Part II: Topical Entries
Adriatic Sea
Age of Sail
Antikythera Wreck
Aquaculture
Art and the Sea
Atlantic Galleon Exchange
Atlantis
Atocha Wreck
Austronesians
Beachcombers (Transculturites)
Belitung Wreck
Bermuda Triangle
Bikini Atoll (Nuclear Pacific)
Burial at Sea
Carbon Cycle
Celestial Navigation
Climate Change
Coastal Erosion and Deposition
The Columbian Exchange
Commodities
Cook, James (1728-1779)
Coral Reefs
Coriolis Effect
Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997)
Cross-Cultural Encounters
Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524)
Deep Sea Exploration
Earle, Sylvia (1935-)
El Nino/La Nina
Estuaries
Exclusive Economic Zone
Fortified Wines (Port and Madeira)
Glaciers
Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645)
Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002)
Hokule'a
Hurricanes and Typhoons
Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500)
Ice Melt
Islands
Law of the Sea
Literature and the Sea
Little Ice Age
Littoral
Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521)
The Manila Galleon
Marine Pollution
Maritime Archaeology
Maritime Deities
Maritime Empires
Maritime Organizations
Maritime Trade
Mediterranean Sea
Mermaids
MH370
Moby-Dick
Mu (Continent of)
Music and Seafarers
Myths and Legends
Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Navigation
Nor'easter
Northwest Passage
Ocean Acidification
Ocean Currents
Ocean Tides
Panama Canal
Piailug, Mau (1932-2010)
Piracy
Plate Tectonics
Poseidon/Neptune
Reefs
Salinity
Sargasso Sea
Sea Ice
Sea Level Rise
Sea Monsters
The Sea Peoples
Sharks
The South China Sea
Suez Canal
Surfing
Terra Australis Incognita
Thalassocracy
Tomol
Tsunami
Tupaia (c. 1725-1770)
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The Vikings
Warships: North American Colonial Wars
Waves
Whales and Whaling
Zheng He (1371-c. 1430)
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index