The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History
“a history of such authority and grace."
John Stilgoe
John R
Gillis
Author and Professor
Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History who resides for most of the year
in Berkeley, California. tn the summer, he can be found on Great Gott Island, off
Acadia National Park in Maine.
“Some are born historians, but I am not one of them... I have travelled light, freer than those rooted in a particular past or place, to roam through time and space, sometimes far from the domain of history itself ”
( By John Gillis in Becoming Historians)
American Coasts, Past and Future
Shores and coasts have distinct histories… Coasts are a feature of modernity. They reflect a desire for order, rationality, and mastery over nature.
Coastal Care
Human Shore reviewed by Boston Globe
'The Human Shore' by John R. Gillis and 'Among the Islands' by Tim
Flannery
Islands of the Mind
“An erudite and beautifully written work of cultural and intellectual history,
bursting with evocative ideas and connections."
Publishers Weekly
John Gillis in the New York Times
A World of Their Own Making: Myth. Ritual. and the Ouest for Family Values
"...a tour de force of accessible scholarship, written with vigor and grace."
Jackson Lears,
Editor of Raritan
John Gillis Feature in Humanities
The Blue Humanities...
"In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings."
National Endowment for the Humanities