About this book series
This series seeks to reconnect the maritime sphere with broader social and cultural histories across the globe. It looks to an emergent area of historiography: how the maritime was a space of global social and cultural exchange. It offers a platform for the growing community of scholars working in ‘new maritime history,’ which looks beyond (but by no means ignores) the economic, political, and military history of the seas, to understand its wider connections to social, cultural, geographical, and imperial histories.
The editors welcome proposals on ‘the maritime’ in its widest sense, including projects framed in terms of coastal history or the paramaritime. Therefore, studies examining the ways that littoral societies or inland communities, spaces, and people connected to the sea are also welcome. So are studies of interstitial watery realms (straits and portages; reticulated systems of lakes, rivers, or inland seas; archipelagos or island clusters). The series considers proposals from across a long chronological period, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.We are especially keen to publish work that offers insights into the important themes of sailors’ gendered sexual identities and sexual activities, including the perspectives of non-normative and proscribed sexual activity, and aiming to incorporate queer approaches and break free of heteronormative frameworks. Similarly, we actively encourage proposals which investigate the global south or incorporate race and ethnicity into their research scope, for example by addressing the experiences of non-European born sailors, or European and American sailors’ interactions with non-westerners.
- Series Editor
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- Brad Beaven,
- Joanne Begiato,
- Isaac Land
