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... into a residential and leisure area for the upper-middle class. Fishers were forced to leave the area, thereby cutting the socio-ecological connections between this urban community and “their” sea, that is, a very special urban commons. This article examines how the sanitization project demolished not only fishers...

... and work at sea and along the rural littoral—the vast stretches of this archipelagic region's nonurban coastal zone. Historically Sama people have played a key role in the maritime produce trades of the region. Like artisanal fishers elsewhere, they have seen their resource base depleted and their labor...

...Vijay Prashad Is it possible to imagine a project to mitigate climate change that does not at the same time engage with the destructive impact that capitalist social relations have had on the natural and human worlds? Islands disappear into the South Seas as islands in the Caribbean are thrashed...

...). Susan G. Davis, Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © 1999 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1999 THE PAST IN PRINT...

...” that any port-­residing contemporary would have known well. Such noises read as triumphant: The shippes hereupon discharge their Ordinance, and shoot off their pieces after the maner of warre, and of the sea, insomuch that the tops of the hilles sounded therewith, the valleys and the waters gave...

... Robert C. Ritchie, Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates, (Har- vard University Press, 1986). 306 pp. $20.00. Marcus Rediker, Between the Dmil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1 750, (Cambridge University Press, 1987). 322 pp...

..., that some strangers had arrived who gabbled in funny old talk because they made the word for sea feminine and not masculine, they called macaws poll parrots, canoes rafts, and harpoons javelins; and when they saw us going out to greet them and swim around their ships they climbed up...

.... Braasch | Urban Images from “World View of Global Warming”  171 Figure 4. Intersection with moving rickshaws, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is the world’s largest nation that is mostly at sea level, in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers, with about 140 million souls. Bangladeshis...

... and the first oar,” which can be seen in the writing of Michel Chiha 03-Hartman.btw 4/16/03 2:59 PM Page 37 “The First Boat and the First Oar”: Inventions of Lebanon in the Writings of Michel Chiha It was this sea that perhaps saw the first...

... into the sea, or dynamited. 17-Zarate.cs 11/19/02 4:03 PM Page 188 188 Radical History Review A second phase corresponded to the period between 1974 and 1977, during which the regime developed a systematic policy of repression in order...

... to previous chapters in the history of racial capitalism over the longue durée. In the second wave of analysis, we focus on Nevèrÿon’s frame narrative: the series is presented as the translation of an ancient scroll unearthed alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. Through the archaeological...

... spaces.”11 The analogy works for Egypt’s water management: state water was con- trolled water for both urban and irrigation purposes; nonstate water was that which flowed unchecked into the Mediterranean Sea, or seeped into desertified land, or drained back into the river. So a valuable way...

... and partitions the landscape, such that a formless blue void of sea and sky abuts a world arrayed into neat metal stacks. That diagonal is then blocked by another, in the repouissoir of the crane itself, which juts from foreground into background, vertiginously collapsing space, its steel arm precisely...

... countries as well as resources for medical care, work, and safety at sea; see http://w2eu.info/index.en.html . There are various iterations of the Know Your Rights fliers and wallet-size cards that are intended to provide undocumented immigrants (and allies) what their legal rights are in encounters...

... Agenda Joseph E. Harris Since ancient times, Africans have traveled across the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean and settled both as free and enslaved people. They trav- eled as merchants, proselytizers for Islam...

... to speak back to modern identity politics? In addition to the immediate mandate of this issue, the preceding questions invite a timely reevaluation of the primary assumptions of social history given the sea change in the structure and logic of oppression produced by the ascendency...

.... Hands across the water. Victor at Sea For a while it looked as if the Kagan family had become the lead drummers among the so-called Vulcans promoting the New American Empire. Donald Kagan, a pro- fessor of ancient history and classics at Yale and an expert on the Peloponnesian war, had been...

... of “home.” Considering mobility in maritime geographies resists a simple directionality in the discovery of a continental home. Paul Gilroy’s black Atlantic is a zone of multidirectional movements of Black people and ideas to and from many locations on the sea’s landward boundaries. 4 Although he...

... associated ever since with music, a horn, a cornet, a trumpet, and later with singing. The cornet descends from the shepherd’s curnu; the trumpet and bugle from the Roman soldier’s buccina; these horns are instruments of gathering and militancy. In the West Indies and the South Sea Islands...

... miles off of Louisiana’s coast and at a depth of five thousand feet below sea level (the well itself went down another thirteen thousand feet). The explosion killed eleven workers and seriously injured seventeen more. Two days later the burning rig sank to the bottom of the Gulf, and it quickly...