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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
April 25, 2014@1300

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About The Sea & 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


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.  He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, and Columbia College.  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.