Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: maritime introspections -- Part 1: Work and leisure in the port city -- Altona: Between land and sea -- The future of work: scaffolds and agencies -- Genoa: the story of a port city and its hinterland -- European seaport narratives: mirroring history in contemporary media -- Part 2: Commerce -- Market stall: maritime commerce in the collections of European maritime museums -- From lighthouses to barcodes -- The European tour -- Bottleneck pressure: Port Said -- Part 3: Metabolic pressure -- Tarnished gold: border regimes from the Mediterranean to Switzerland -- Liquid territory -- They cleaned the beach before we arrived -- Between the city and the deep sea: on the plastic nature of the Helsinki shoreline -- No trophy -- Part 4: Dreamscapes -- Haul away: Liverpool's irregular currents -- North Canada - English Electric, 2010 -- A short journey (from Derry to Inishowen) -- A letter to Henrietta -- Acoustic ocean: annotated video script…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Franklin Institute's Raison d'ÊtreThe Report on Steam Boiler Explosions; Weights and Measures; The Debate on Meteor Showers; Research Interests and Institutional Development: Common Denominators; Girard College and Central High School, 1836-1842; Girard College as a Political Symbol; The Design and Ambition of Greek Revivalism; Bache's European Trip and the Bache-Biddle Correspondence; More on Bache's European Tour; Central High School; Bache's Program for National Consolidation I; Bache's 1842 Address on "American Manufactures"; American Mythology…”