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Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the postCold War era.
This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. We find out how a once-enslaved East African king brought Islam to his people, what the American sail-around territories were, and what the Song Dynasty did with twenty-wheel, human-powered paddleboats with twenty paddle wheels and up to three hundred crew. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright 2013 by Lincoln Paine
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House Companies.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Paine, Lincoln P.
The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world / by Lincoln Paine. First Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-4000-4409-2 (hardback)
1. Ocean and civilization. 2. Naval history. 3. Naval art and scienceHistory. 4. NavigationHistory. 5. Sea-powerHistory. I. Title.
CB465.P342013
910.45dc23
2013015436
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96225-6
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Now one day, as I was sitting with Abu Ali bin Hazim and looking at the seawe were on the shore at Adansaid he to me: What is it with which you seem to me to be so preoccupied?
Said I: God support the Shaykh! My mind is perplexed concerning the sea, so great is the number of conflicting accounts of it. The Shaykh now is the most knowledgeable of men about it, because he is chief of the merchants, and his ships are continually traveling to the furthermost parts of it. Should he be willing to give me a description of it I can rely on, and relieve me of doubt about it, perhaps he will do so.
Said he: You have encountered an expert in the matter! He smoothed the sand with the palm of his hand and drew a figure of the sea on it.
al-Muqaddasi, The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the World (375 AH / 985 CE )
Oceania
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Pre-Columbian South America and the Caribbean
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Pre-Columbian North and Central America
The shaded area indicates the range of the paper birch (Betula papyrifera), or canoe birch, and thus of the birchbark canoe.
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Ancient Egypt
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From Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley
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The Bronze Age Near East
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The Classical Mediterranean
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The Muslim Indian Ocean
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East and Southeast Asia
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The Medieval Mediterranean
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Europe Through the Viking Age
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Late Medieval Europe
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The Monsoon Seas
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Asia and the Pacific in the Early Modern Period
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The Atlantic World
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Early Modern Europe
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Asia and the Pacific at the Turn of the Millennium
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No one can write a world history without support and advice from a diverse crew of colleagues, friends, and relatives. Foremost among my creditors is John Wright, friend, colleague, horseplayer, opera buff(a), and literary agent, without whom this book would have remained nothing more than an interesting idea. Once this project was launched, he kept at the pumps to make sure itand Istayed afloat. He has my deepest thanks.
Many people generously made time in their own schedules to read and comment on large portions of the manuscript at various stages in its development: Al Andrea of the World History Association; my doctoral advisors, Leonard Bluss and Femme Gaastra, Leiden University; Kelly Chavez, at the University of Tulsa; Martina Duncan, of the Southern Maine Community College; the peripatetic Felipe Fernndez-Armesto, now of the University of Notre Dame; John Hattendorf, Naval War College; Joshua Smith, United States Merchant Marine Academy; and Jim Terry, Stephens College.
Others who have offered advice on individual chapters or sections include Nick Burningham; Arthur Donovan, United States Merchant Marine Academy; Matthew Edney, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine; David Kalivas and his fellow editors of and subscribers to H-World; Kris Lane, Tulane University; the late Ken McPherson; Nathan Lipfert, Maine Maritime Museum; John C. Perry, Tufts University; Louis Sicking, Leiden University; Tom Vosmer; Lodewijk Wagenaar, Amsterdam Museum; Cheryl Ward, Coastal Carolina University; and the subscribers to MARHST-L, among many others.
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