Changes on the Coast Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The introduction of this issue devoted to the history of coastal environments proposes to go beyond the ‘great divide’ between land and sea, which still largely shapes the field of environmental history, and to rethink their interactions within the framework of a ‘terraqueous’ environmental history. The coasts are a privileged terrain for tackling this dichotomous vision. Because they are the hybrid product of natural and social dynamics, their ...