Abstract:Vor knapp zehn Jahren hätte ein Rezensionsessay zur Rolle der Meere und Ozeane in den Geschichtswissenschaften noch mit der Beschwörung des Blue Hole begonnen. Der amerikanische Historiker John Gillis brachte die marine Forschungslücke für die Umweltgeschichte prägnant auf den Punkt: "There is a blue hole in environmental history. It remains a remarkably landlocked discipline, one that largely ignores the seven-tenths of our globe's surface covered by water and an ecosystem estimated to constitute ninety-eig… Show more
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