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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michael North\, 'Connected Oceans: Seas as
  Media of Global Exchange'
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme\, The Constr
 aints of Creativity.\n\nHallsworth Visiting Fellow\, Michael North (Prof
 essor of Modern History\, University of Greifswald)\, will deliver a pub
 lic lecture entitled 'Connected Oceans: Seas as Media of Global Exchange
 '.\n\nThe Earth is a water planet. Three-Quarters of  the surface is cov
 ered by water\, and over 90 percent of the world’s trade is carried by s
 ea. Despite a flourishing field of  global history\, seas as media of gl
 obal exchange have attracted only little attention of  historians.\nNeve
 rtheless\, in the last fifteen years individual seas\, such as the Medit
 erranean (Abulafia)\, Baltic (North)\, Atlantic (Butel)\, Indian Ocean (
 Pearson)\, or Pacific (Matsuda) found their authors. Most of  them – fol
 lowing the model of Fernand Braudel – construct „their“ sea as closed sy
 stem\, without taking the various connections with other seas into accou
 nt.\n\nMy lecture wants to overcome these limited perspectives and demon
 strate the global connectivity of the seas from the Vikings until the 19
 th century\, focusing at the same time on global and regional exchanges.
  Unlike Fernand Braudel\, the seas are not understood as all-powerful na
 ture that determined peoples’ lives. On the contrary\, people such as  m
 erchants and sailors are the protagonists of the lecture. They not only 
 witness\, experience and perceive the seas\, but also reinvent and const
 itute them via trade and cultural exchange. \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A113\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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