The Great Sea: A Human History of the MediterraneanOxford University Press, 1. jun. 2011 - 816 sider 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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Mediterranean Troughs 600900 | lv |
Crossing the Boundaries between Christendom and Islam 900 | vi |
The Profit That God Shall Give 11001200 | xi |
Ever the Twain Shall Meet 18301900 | xlvi |
The Greek and the unGreek 18301920 | lxi |
Ottoman Exit 19001918 | lxxi |
A Tale of Four and a Half Cities 19001950 | diii |
Mare Nostrum Again 19181945 | viii |
The Last Mediterranean 19502010 | x |
Further Reading | 75 |
Isolation and Insulation 22000 BC3000 | 1 |
Ways across the Sea 11601185 | xxvi |
The Fall and Rise of Empires 11301260 | ii |
Merchants Mercenaries and Missionaries 12201300 | viii |
Serrata Closing 12911350 | iii |
Wouldbe Roman Emperors 13501480 | iii |
Transformations in the West 13911500 | xii |
Holy Leagues and Unholy Alliances 15001550 | xxix |
Akdeniz the Battle for the White Sea 15501571 | xliv |
Interlopers in the Mediterranean 15711650 | lxvi |
Diasporas in Despair 15601700 | lxxxii |
Encouragement to Others 16501780 | xcviii |
The View through the Russian Prism 17601805 | xii |
Deys Beys and Bashaws 18001830 | xxix |
Copper and Bronze 3000 BC1500 | 1 |
Merchants and Heroes 1500 BC1250 | 1 |
Sea Peoples and Land Peoples 1250 BC1100 | 1 |
PART TWO The Second Mediterranean 1000 BCAD 600 | 1 |
The Heirs of Odysseus 800 BC550 | 1 |
The Triumph of the Tyrrhenians 800 BC400 | 1 |
Towards the Garden of the Hesperides 1000 BC400 | 1 |
Thalassocracies 550 BC400 | 1 |
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed 400 BC146 | 1 |
| 1 | |
Old and New Faiths AD 1450 | 1 |
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