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The corrupting sea : a study of Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell.
Author
Horden, Peregrine
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English
Published/Created
Oxford [U.K.] ; Malden, Mass : Blackwell, 2000.
Description
xiii, 761 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
DE59 .H7 2000
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Mediterranean Region
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Summary note
"The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong. This is the first major work since Braudel's The Mediterranean to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time-scale." "The authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They draw on an exceptionally wide range of evidence - literary works, documents, archaeology, scientific reports and social anthropology."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [642]-736) and index.
Contents
Part 1 'Frogs round a Pond': Ideas of the Mediterranean 7
Part 2 'Short Distances and Definite Places': Mediterranean Microecologies 51
Part 3 Revolution and Catastrophe 173
Part 4 The Geography of Religion 401
Part 5 'Museums of Man'? The Uses of Social Anthropology 461.
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ISBN
0631136665 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780631136668 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0631218904 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780631218906 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
99034343
OCLC
42692026
International Article Number
9780631218906
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