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.
The sea : thalassography and historiography. ISBN 9780472118670. Published by The University of Michigan Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.