Topics under consideration by contributors include, but are not limited to:

• The environmental history of the basin
• Waters, waterways and the flow of goods and coinage
• Ships and life in transit
• Nodes and boundaries I: Mountains, islands and peninsulas
• Nodes and boundaries II: Cities, ports and camps
• Migrations 
• Political expansion and contraction
• Institutions and agencies
• Enslavement, race and religious conversion
• Material culture
• Literary culture
• Systems of belief
• Memory, language and identity