| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Daniel Finamore, editor. Maritime History as World History. (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2004. Pp. xii, 216. $59.95.

This collection grew out of a conference held in 2000 at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It must be viewed as a careful, if not altogether successful, attempt to bridge the traditional scholarship conducted under the heading "maritime history" with recent, and more innovative, approaches to the historical significance of oceans. As editor Daniel Finamore states in his brief introduction, the term "maritime history" veils the fact that the sea has been a "fundamental factor of world history" and thus demands attention beyond the limits of a historical subdiscipline (p. 1). Such a statement can only be applauded; it joins a number of other recent voices calling for a new appreciation of oceanic history—especially the history of the great age of sail—as an important precursor of globalization.

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