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""Oceans and Society: Blue Planet"" (www.oceansandsociety.org) is a global initiative bringing together many ocean-observing programmes with a societal benefit focus. It was created in 2011 as a Task within the Work Plan of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The Geneva-based GEO is a voluntary partnership of some 90 governments and 77 intergovernmental, international, and regional organisations. It is committed to integrating global observations through strengthened cooperation and coordina...

Oceanography --- Ocean and civilization --- Civilization and ocean --- Civilization

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Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas; the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.

Ocean and civilization. --- Atlantic Ocean --- Mediterranean Sea --- History.

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We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought "to pierce the profundity" of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet.

Oceanography --- Oceanography --- Marine resources conservation --- Ocean --- Ocean and civilization. --- History. --- International cooperation --- History. --- History. --- Public opinion.

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Maritime archaeology deals with shipwrecks and is carried out by divers rather than diggers. It embraces maritime history and analyses changes in shipbuilding, navigation and seamanship and offers fresh perspectives on the cultures and societies that produced the ships and sailors. Drawing on detailed past and recent case studies, Richard A. Gould provides an up-to-date review of the field that includes dramatic new findings arising from improved undersea technologies. This second edition of Archaeology and the Social History of Ships has been updated throughout to reflect new findings and new interpretations of old sites. The new edition explores advances in undersea technology in archaeology, especially remotely operated vehicles. The book reviews many of the major recent shipwreck findings, including the Vasa in Stockholm, the Viking wrecks at Roskilde Fjord and the Titanic.

Shipping --- History of civilization --- Archeology --- Underwater archaeology. --- Shipwrecks. --- Ships --- Ocean and civilization. --- Archéologie sous-marine --- Naufrages --- Navires --- Mer et civilisation --- History. --- Histoire --- Archéologie sous-marine --- Civilization and ocean --- Civilization --- Marine disasters --- Wrecks --- Adventure and adventurers --- Marine accidents --- Voyages and travels --- Collisions at sea --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists --- Social Sciences

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A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history.

Oceanography --- Seas --- Ocean and civilization --- World history. --- Material culture --- Continental seas --- Epeiric seas --- Epicontinental seas --- Inland seas --- Bodies of water --- Civilization and ocean --- Civilization --- Universal history --- History --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- History. --- Historiography. --- Social aspects --- Océanographie --- Mers --- Mer et civilisation --- Histoire universelle --- Culture matérielle --- Histoire