Human Shore Seacoasts in History

Name: Human Shore Seacoasts in History
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ISBN: 9780226922232

ISBN-10: 0226922235

ISBN-13: 9780226922232

Edition: 2012

Authors: John R. Gillis

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Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. InThe Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.92" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

John R. Gillis is the author of Islands of the Mind; A World of Their Own Making: Myth Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values; and Commemorations. A professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University, he now divides his time between two coasts: Northern California and Maine.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



An Alternative to Eden



Coasts of the Ancient Mariner



Sea Frontiers of the Early Modern Atlantic



Settling the Shores



The Second Discovery of the Sea



Coastal Dreams and Nightmares


Conclusion: Learning to Live with Coasts


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index