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https://www.academia.edu/120974341/Knowledge_Exchanges_between_Portugal_and_Europe_Maritim…

…changes between Portugal and Europe Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 Early modern oceans not only provided temperate climates, resources, and opportunities for commercial exchange, they also played a central role in cultural life. Increased exploration, travel, and trade, marked th…

https://www.academia.edu/49518712/There_and_back_again_the_significance_of_far_travel_and_…

…legend, who navigated great wakas or canoes across vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, rather than the clinker-hulled longships sailing the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. But both journeys were long, difficult and dangerous. Both brought the far-travellers to small islands …

https://www.academia.edu/64925676/A_Cosmopolitan_Community_Hanseatic_Merchants_in_the_Germ…

…ration of global communication by steam-power and telegraphs on land and across oceans. By 1871, these processes had resulted in the creation of a modern, industrial world-market, and of the strengthened, increasingly unitary, territorial states that based their legitimacy on nat…