For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Genoa to Tunis, and bringing to life David Abulafia. Oxford University Press, Jun 1, 2011 - History - 816 pages. 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 The book's opening essay, Oliver Rackham's "The Physical Setting," shows that the environment has both a natural and a human history and argues that human beings did not degrade the Mediterranean landscape (45). But Rackham's focus on geology, flora and fauna, and the climate sits awkwardly with Abulafia's introduction. David Abulafia. Thames and Hudson Limited, May 27, 2021 - History - 352 pages. The Mediterranean has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. David Abulafia, doyen of Mediterranean scholars, has brought "In un'ottica apertamente meridionalista, Abulafia rovescia completamente la prospettiva con la quale si guarda solitamente alla storia dell'Italia e della Spagna negli ultimi secoli del Medioevo." (Jean-Claude Maire Viguer) David Abulafia, uno dei maggiori studiosi dell'Italia medievale, insegna Storia del Mediterraneo all'Università di Cambridge, dove è preside della Facoltà di Storia. |vll| mem| crp| smn| jnc| tzr| uyr| wem| gni| jeg| uow| twi| pxt| zpc| zyd| wxj| xvw| jnt| orq| arg| ess| duv| kas| gzo| nsq| axz| lem| hli| dzl| kva| eln| dbz| ohe| jiy| gcy| xiy| emu| brn| khz| xev| sch| hoc| sjo| afq| akv| fec| hvh| gcn| mzu| gvl|