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Ballast
Ballast

Ballast

Laden with History

SOCIAL SCIENCE

120 Pages, 5.5 x 8.75

Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket

Cloth, $39.95 (US $39.95) (CA $44.95)

Publication Date: March 2018

ISBN 9789188661227

Rights: US, CA, AU, NZ & SAM

Nordic Academic Press (Mar 2018)

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Overview

In Ballast: Laden with History, the archaeologist Mats Burström charts how ship ballast helped to shape the world we live in. Until only very recently, ships were ballasted with sand, gravel, stone, or rubble to give them stability, and when they no longer needed the extra weight, it was dumped. The result was that huge quantities of ballast were shipped to new places and new continents. Ballast was often reused, sometimes in surprising ways. This is the first comprehensive account of ship ballast, so long overlooked, and now finally recognized for its diverse and exciting history.

Author Biography

Mats Burström is professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been instrumental in establishing the archaeological study of the twentieth century as a field of research. His studies within this field include a Nazi propaganda site in Germany, Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and personal belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia during the Second World War. His academic work is characterized by general references to art and literature.

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