The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean: A Human History of the Mediterranean. Winner of the Mountbatten Literary Award for the Best Book about the Sea 2011 - Softcover

Abulafia, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014102755X ISBN 13: 9780141027555

Verlag: Penguin, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean from the erection of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the recent reinvention of the Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination.

The Great Sea ranges stupendously across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political. Anyone who reads it will leave it with their understanding of those societies and their histories enormously enriched.

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David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and was until recently Chairman of the Cambridge History Faculty. His previous books include Frederick II and The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, and in 2003 was made Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana in recognition of his work on Italian and Mediterranean history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 014102755X
• ISBN 13: 9780141027555
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 816
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