The greatest living historian of the Mediterranean (Andrew Roberts)
A towering achievement. No review can really do justice to the scale of Abulafia's achievement: in its epic sweep, eye for detail and lucid style. (Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times)
Brocaded with studious observation and finely-tuned scholarship, the overall effect is mesmerising. (Ian Thomson Independent)
A memorable study, its scholarship tinged with indulgent humour and an authorial eye for bizarre detail. (Jonathan Keates Sunday Telegraph)
The story is teeming with colourful characters, and Abulafia wears his scholarship lightly, even dashingly. (Simon Sebag Montefiore Financial Times)
SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
Part of the argument of Abulafia's book is that the great port cities - Alexandria, Trieste and Salonika and many others - prospered in part because of their ability to allow many different peoples, religions and identities to co-exist within sometimes very confined spaces. He also brilliantly populates his history with identifiable individuals whose lives illustrate with great immediacy the wider developments he is describing.
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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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7719-9780713999341
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6545-9780713999341
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Anbieter: Back Lane Books, North Vancouver, BC, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: See Description. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia. Published by Allen Lane, London, 2011. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 783pp., with photos, maps index. Blue boards with white titles, photo endpapers. Light spine concave, top edge crease to pages 474-528, rubbing to tail of spine; contents clean of markings. Dustjacket has a small chip tail of spine and rubbing to edges. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005250
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 2011. First printing with number. xxxi.+ 783pp. Book is in Near Fine condition - pages are clean & bright; binding remains firm & square. Boards show some light wear to edges & corners. DJ is whole wtth no chips or tears but with some light wear to edges & corners. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001137
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Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Repr. 816 S. Buch ist schief gelesen!! Akzeptables Exemplar, deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, Papier/Schnitt nachgedunkelt, ist aber noch gut zu gebrauchen; Acceptable copy, noticeable wear, cover/dust jacket shows wear, edges/text pages show yellowing/darkening, but still of use. B230915ah17 ISBN: 9780713999341 Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1410. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 667267
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