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Book Review: The Sea: A Cultural History. By John Mack

Book Review: The Sea: A Cultural History. By John Mack 554 cultural geographies 19(4) It is for this reason, maybe, that the book avoids tackling in detail some broader theoretical questions concerning the substantive political effects, achievements or failures of the 1960s London underground. This may be a disappointment to those looking for more fuel for a defence or critique of these kinds of cultural politics. But the aim of the book seems to be a different and more interest- ing one: not to use history as a platform from which to cast judgement, but to use it as a tool for identifying and analysing the composition of forces, energies and experiences that have a keen potency or resonance in the present. Julian Brigstocke Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK The Sea: A Cultural History. By John Mack. London: Reaktion Books. 2011. 272 pp. £19.95 cloth. ISBN 9781861898098 John Mack’s text begins with two intriguing questions: ‘why did no one apparently think it worth settling on the large island of Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean until late in human history’ and ‘why – coincidentally at about the same time as Madagascar was finally being colonized – did the people of East Anglia take to burying a leader http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: The Sea: A Cultural History. By John Mack

Cultural Geographies , Volume 19 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2012
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554 cultural geographies 19(4) It is for this reason, maybe, that the book avoids tackling in detail some broader theoretical questions concerning the substantive political effects, achievements or failures of the 1960s London underground. This may be a disappointment to those looking for more fuel for a defence or critique of these kinds of cultural politics. But the aim of the book seems to be a different and more interest- ing one: not to use history as a platform from which to cast judgement, but to use it as a tool for identifying and analysing the composition of forces, energies and experiences that have a keen potency or resonance in the present. Julian Brigstocke Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK The Sea: A Cultural History. By John Mack. London: Reaktion Books. 2011. 272 pp. £19.95 cloth. ISBN 9781861898098 John Mack’s text begins with two intriguing questions: ‘why did no one apparently think it worth settling on the large island of Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean until late in human history’ and ‘why – coincidentally at about the same time as Madagascar was finally being colonized – did the people of East Anglia take to burying a leader

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