| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5 | The History Cooperative

Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackentheun, editors. Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. New York: Routledge. 2004. Pp. ix, 219. Cloth $85.00, paper $24.95.
These are not oceanographic studies but detailed speculations on what thinking through oceans makes possible: worlds of actors in contact zones and hybrid cultural spaces, clashing and collaborative ventures with Polynesian exploration, Atlantic slavery, English literature, and multiple investments of shipboard crews drawn from every conceivable part of the world.	1
The contributions include historians and literary critics working through extended discussions of navigation and seascapes, lascars and Manila men, the Sulu trading and piracy zone, seaborne insurance and cannibalism, as well as a number of readings of Olaudah Equiano, James Cook, Herman Melville, Daniel Defoe, and William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Editors Gesa Mackentheun and Bernhard Klein provide a foreword. Peter Hulme, with an extended meditation on Shakespeare, rounds out the volume with a closing essay on the "uttermost parts of the earth," and the ever-present trope of being cast away as the condition and danger of those confronted with sea changes in their lives, whether intentional in navigation and wayfinding, or imposed, as through the exploitations of slavery and shipwreck.	. . .

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