History of the oceans
Objectives
Acquire knowledge about the specificity of the relationship between humanity and the oceans, from their beginnings to the present day.
Understand the importance of the oceans, on the one hand in the field of contemporary international relations and world economy and, on the other hand, in the need to preserve both their biodiversity and submerged heritage.
Apprehend the diversity of concepts, methodologies and sources necessary for the study of maritime history understood in the long term.
To be able to elaborate a written text on a specific problematic of maritime history revealing the domain of concepts, methodologies and adequate sources.
General characterization
Code
01110376
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Alexandra Maria Pinheiro Pelúcia
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Abulafia (Davida), 2019, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans. Oxford University Press.
ANTUNES (Cátia) & POLÓNIA (Amélia), 2016, Beyond empires. Global, self-organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800, Amesterdão,
Brill.
BERNAL (Rafael), 2012, El gran océano, Cidade do México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
CUNLIFFE (Barry), 2017, On the Ocean. The Mediterranean and the Atlantic. From Prehistory to AD 1500, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
KRISTIANSEN (Kristian) & LINDKVIST (Thomas) & MYRDAL (Janken), 2018, Trade and Civilisation. Economic Networks and Cultural
Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
LEITÃO (Henrique) & MADRID (José Maria Moreno), 2021, Desenhando a porta do Pacífico, Lisboa, By the Book.
Mack (Jonh), 2018, Uma História Cultural do Mar. Almedina.
McPHERSON (Kenneth), 1993, The Indian Ocean. A history of the people and the sea, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
Theoretical lessons based on magisterial expositions by the teachers. Practical classes based on the discussion of themes by the students, under the guidance of the teachers, using the presentation, analysis and commentary of sources, historiographic texts, audiovisual products, maps and other iconographic materials.
Evaluation method
Two individual written elements: one test and one essay with a maximum of 10,000 characters on one of the sylabus topics. The final grade will be the average of the two elements, which have a preponderance of 50% each.
Subject matter
1 - The dominion of the oceans:
a) The planetarisation of sapiens on dry feet.
b) The authronesians - the first great maritime civilisation, who populated the island spaces from Hawaii to New Zealand and Madagascar.
c) The Mediterraneans of the Old World and the first maritime empires in Asia and Europe - Srivijaya, the Vikings, Venice.
d) The maritime dimension of the Silk Roads
e) The Discoveries and globalisation (15th-17th centuries).
f) The imperialisms on the ocean planet (XVIII-XXI centuries).
2 - The knowledge of the sea:
a) Cartography and the representation of the sea
b) From the ancient texts to the research of the abyssal seabed.
3 - The relationship with the sea:
(a) the societies of the great routes of long-distance maritime trade
b) Thalassocracies
c) The coastal societies