David Abulafia: The Great Sea | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780141977164 | The Great Sea | A Human History of the Mediterranean | David Abulafia

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XXXI 783 S.
ISBN-13:	9780141977164
ISBN-10:	0141977167
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Abulafia, David
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Penguin
Maße:	197 x 128 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	David Abulafia
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.03.2014
Gewicht:	0,611 kg

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