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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

Door David Abulafia

Categorie	Algemeen Landen & Volkeren
Boeknummer	#416357-XZ11
Titel	The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Auteur	Abulafia, David
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Allen Lane
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0713999349
ISBN13	9780713999341
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 h... (Lees verder)is 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.
Pagina's	783
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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