Lincoln Paine's 2013 maritime world history — arguing that the sea has been the primary highway of human communication, trade, and cultural exchange throughout history — providing the most comprehensive account of how maritime connections shaped civilizations.
Creates the maritime history of civilization as a unified narrative — The Sea and Civilization demonstrates that the dominant mode of human long-distance connection has always been by water, and that terrestrial political history makes no sense without understanding the maritime networks that connected civilizations.
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