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David Abulafia

The Great Sea

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-14-197716-4
  • EAN: 9780141977164
  • Produktnummer: 14849272
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 816 S.
  • Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D4.8 cm 603 g
  • Gewicht: 603

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.

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