The Red Sea - by Alexis Wick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historian's craft"--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history.<br /><br />Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, <i>The Red Sea</i> makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historian's craft.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Alexis Wick's <i>The Red Sea </i>provides a rare history of an Ottoman Red Sea while asking why the Ottomans did not even conceive of a Red Sea. Wick's meditation on the meaning of the sea for historians finds its answer in a romantic, European philosophy of history in which the sea becomes anthropomorphized as a subject and a creature of intelligent design. Intriguing reading for anyone interested in the 'new thalassology, ' or oceanic turn in history."--Engseng Ho, author of <i>The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean</i> <p/> "<i>The Red Sea </i>is simultaneously an important addition to the recent scholarship of thalassology and an erudite, insightful, and necessary critique of it. This book will be of interest to scholars of Ottoman history, European history, maritime history, Middle East studies, and, importantly, to historians critical of disciplinary methodologies and approaches in the field."--Joseph A. Massad, author of <i>Islam in Liberalism</i> <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A rich and erudite work."-- "Le Monde Diplomatique"<br><br>"A substantial and relatively groundbreaking piece of work with a sharp understanding of how geography is anchored in History with a capital H, and vice versa. Wick's determined appeal for his readers to see both the Red Sea as a product of European design as well as space more generally as a host of discursively constituted and lived places and landscapes, each with a poetics, a history, and a sense of its own is absolutely refreshing, to say nothing of its necessity."-- "AAG Review of Books"<br><br>"Scholars will appreciate the richness of the [book's] argument."-- "CHOICE"<br><br>"Sophisticated and erudite . . . a very important work."-- "New Perspectives on Turkey"<br><br>"Valuable... an enlightening read."-- "Mada Masr"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alexis Wick</b> is Assistant Professor of History at the American University of Beirut.
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