SUNY Maritime Stephen B. Luce Library
Library Lecture Series:
Navigate your course @ Your Library
Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime
History of the World
Friday April 25, 2014 @ 1300
About the Author:
Lincoln Paine is
an author, maritime historian, editor and lecturer. He has authored 5 books and over 50 articles
and reviews on maritime history.
A native of New Orleans, he has spent a significant portion
of his life on the northeastern seaboard (New York and Maine) of the US. Paine has worked as an editor for many
publications for nearly 30 years. He
currently holds the position of editor for Itinerario:
International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global
Interaction.
When not lecturing or writing on various aspects of maritime
history, Paine serves on the boards of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath and
The Telling Room, a non-profit writing center for children and young adults.
The Sea &
Civilization: A Maritime History of the World is his 5th book.
About The Sea and Civilization:
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of
maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into
contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods,
languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s
waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most
human.
This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new
light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the
rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers)
Elegantly written and encyclopedic in scope, with an expert
grasp of the demands of seamanship in every age, The Sea and Civilization
deserves a wide readership. For landlocked historians, it will be a powerful
stimulus to dip their toes—and perhaps their pens—in saltwater and for readers
a forceful reminder that the urge to "go down to the sea in ships"
has shaped civilizations and cultures in every period and in every part of the
globe. —The Wall Street
Journal
