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Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, From Harbour to Horizon takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.

Die Niederländische Republik war in vielerlei Hinsicht einzigartig im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit. Die hohe Urbanisierung, die geringe Zahl an Analphabeten und die religiöse Toleranz waren nur einige der vielen Besonderheiten. Hierzu gehörten auch der ungewöhnlich große Kunstbesitz und die immense Produktivität der Maler, die dieser Epoche den Namen „Goldenes Zeitalter“ gab. Niederländische See- und Kaufleute verbanden, ausgehend von Nord- und Ostsee, die Weltmeere und vermittelten die Güter der entlegensten Regionen. So schildert das Buch die niederländische Präsenz in der Welt, die Interaktion mit den einheimischen Gesellschaften sowie die davon ausgehenden künstlerischen Wechselwirkungen vor Ort einschließlich ihrer Rückwirkungen auf Europa. Die Leser*innen folgen auf diese Weise der Kupferstecherin Maria Sibylla Merian auf der Reise nach Surinam, erleben die Förderung niederländischer Künstler und Gelehrter durch Christina von Schweden, werden Zeugen einer wahrhaften „Hollandomanie“ in Japan und erfahren außerdem, wie Rembrandt die Kunst am indischen Mogulhof imitierte.

The conversion of CO 2 to chemicals and consumables is a pioneering approach to utilize undesired CO 2 emissions and simultaneously create new products out of sustainable feedstock. This set combines fundamentals of CO 2 chemistry, its capture and separation as well transformative reactions. Both volumes are also available individually: Vol1: ISBN 978-3-11-056309-2and Vol2 978-3-11-066503-1.

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and culture. The problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now-but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and now actually is? What Is the Present? takes a provocative new look at this moment in time that remains a mystery even though it is always with us. Michael North tackles puzzles that have preoccupied philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, history, and aesthetic theory and examines the complex role of the present in painting, fiction, and film. He engages with a range of thinkers, from Aristotle and Augustine to William James and Henri Bergson. He draws illuminating examples from artists such as Fra Angelico and Richard McGuire, filmmakers like D.W. Griffith and Christopher Nolan, and novelists such as Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather. North offers a critical analysis of previous models of the present, from the experiential present to the historical period we call the contemporary. He argues that the present is not a cosmological or experiential fact but a metaphor, a figurative relationship with the whole of time. Presenting an entirely new conception of the temporal mystery Georg Lukacs called the "unexplained instant," What Is the Present? explores how the arts have traditionally represented the present-and also how artists have offered radical alternatives to that tradition

Michael North bietet einen eindrucksvollen Überblick über mehr als 3000 Jahre Weltgeschichte der Meere. Er schildert die Auseinandersetzung des Menschen mit den Herausforderungen und Gefahren der Ozeane und zeigt die Möglichkeiten, die sie uns eröffnen. Güter zu transportieren und damit reich zu werden oder existenzielle Nöte zu erfahren und alles zu verlieren, neue militärische Optionen zu nutzen und seine Macht über Kontinente auszudehnen - das alles war und ist bis heute mit der Beherrschung der Seefahrt, der Kunst des Schiffsbaus, der Nautik und der Herrschaft über die Seewege verbunden. Nicht zuletzt aber bildet das Meer gleichsam den Naturraum der Globalisierung, wie uns tagtäglich angesichts der Flüchtlingsströme ebenso bewusst wird wie angesichts der skrupellosen Zerstörung dieses einzigartigen Lebensraums - Prozesse, vor denen niemand die Augen verschließen kann. Über diese und viele weitere Themen informiert die neue Weltgeschichte der Meere.

In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world’s major waterways. The Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism. He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their ambitions on the region’s doorstep. With its vigorous trade in furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been—and remains—one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the world.