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Item Details
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THE GREAT SEA
A HUMAN HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN |
| By: |
David Abulafia |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
014102755X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780141027555 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
3 May, 2012 |
| Pages: |
816 |
| Description: |
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. This title provides history of the Mediterranean from the erection of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the reinvention of the Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination. |
| Synopsis: |
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 emphasizes diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political. Anyone who reads it will leave it with their understanding of those societies and their histories enormously enriched. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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