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Review of: The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History by John S. Sledge
The Journal of southern history, Vol.86(4), pp.899-900
2020
Abstract
The Gulf of Mexico is heating up, academically speaking. From Jack E. Davis's Pulitzer Prize–winning The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (New York, 2017) to recent studies of its littoral communities, environmental disasters, and energy landscapes by Cindy Ermus, Andy Horowitz, and others, the tenth-largest body of water on earth is capturing the historian's gaze like never before. John S. Sledge's The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History is, at first glance, a welcome extension of this scholarly inquiry, offering a compelling narrative of the Gulf's storied maritime past for a popular audience. Indeed, one can almost taste those briny waters reading this handsomely produced volume.
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- Title
- Review of: The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History by John S. Sledge
- Publication Details
- The Journal of southern history, Vol.86(4), pp.899-900
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- The Southern Historical Association
- Copyright
- © 2020 Southern Historical Association
- Identifiers
- 99380572095806600
- Academic Unit
- History and Philosophy; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Language
- English