EAN: 9780141977164

THE GREAT SEA - DAVID ABULAFIA KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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