Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction. History at Sea: Space and the Other
1 • The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea
2 • Thalassology alla Turca: Six Theses on the Philosophy of History
3 • Self-Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, June 21, 1777
4 • The Scientific Invention of the Red Sea
5 • Thalassomania: Modernity and the Sea
Conclusion. Rigging the Historian’s Craft: For an Epistemology of Composition

Notes
Bibliography
Index  

About the Author

Alexis Wick is Assistant Professor of History at the American University of Beirut.

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