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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Contributor(s): Abulafia, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 019931599X     ISBN-13: 9780199315994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- History | Modern - General
- History | Eastern Europe - General
Physical Information: 2.3" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" L (1.90 lbs) 816 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the
sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it.

Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with
merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, living together.

Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.
 
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