The sea: thalassography and historiography

Introduction: The sea is the land's edge also / Peter N. Miller

Two men in a boat : the Braudel-Goitein "correspondence" and the beginning of thalassography / Peter N. Miller

Atlantic and Caribbean perspectives : analyzing a hybrid and entangled world / Wim Klooster

Tide, beach, and backwash : the place of maritime histories / Nicholas Purcell

The East Asian "Mediterranean" : a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world / Angela Schottenhammer

Metaphorical perspectives of the sea and the Sulu zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren

Connecting maritime and continental history : the Black Sea region at the time of the Mongol empire / Nicola di Cosmo

An ocean of islands : islands, insularity, and historiography of the Indian Ocean / Roxani Margariti

Skerries, haffs, and icefloes : small seas and maritime histories / David Kirby

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Peiresc / Peter N. Miller

Afterthoughts: Histories in bottles / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.