Oceans of the Past

Fall 2015

Faculty

Edward D. Melillo (Section 01)
Tracie L. Rubeck (Section 01)

Description

Participants in "Oceans of the Past" will explore global maritime history. We will investigate how mariners, pirates, smugglers, merchants, novelists, cartographers, hunters, policymakers, and scientists have understood the seas from ancient times to the present. We will also look at long-term environmental issues shaping our maritime futures. These include: climate change, fisheries management, and aquatic pollution. In addition to our classroom activities, we will use the collections at the Mead Art Museum and make a trip to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Staff members from the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole and the Nantucket Historical Association will visit us during the semester.

Fall semester. Professor Melillo.

Course times and locations

FYSE 101 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM FAYE 117
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM FAYE 117

Textbooks

Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN	Title	Publisher	Author(s)	Book Store	Price
978-0300209907	The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015	Reid, Josh	Amherst Books	TBD
978-0393330298	The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century	New York: W.W. Norton, 2007	Hodes, Martha	Amherst Books	TBD
978-0415445382	The Indian Ocean (1st ed.)	New York: Routledge, 2003	Pearson, Michael	Amherst Books	TBD
978-0801851605	Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920	Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996	Creighton, Margaret S. & Lisa Norling, eds.	Amherst Books	TBD
9780813565774	The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture (Nature, Society, and Culture)	Rutgers University Press	Longo, Stefano B. - Clausen, Rebecca - Clark, Brett	Amherst Books	From $16.96-$50.94
978-1563249990	Double Ghosts: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships	Routledge, 1997	Chappell, David A.	Amherst Books	TBD
9781608194032	Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans	Bloomsbury Press	Brian Fagan	Amherst Books	From $3.99-$41.09
978-1611685404	A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks	Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, 2015	Gordon, Stewart	Amherst Books	TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2015

Section Navigation

Fall 2015