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A companion to Mediterranean history /
A Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present. Provides a valuable introduction to current debates...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY; Title page; Copyright page; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Climate and Vegetation; CHAPTER ONE : The Mediterranean Climate; Formation and structure of the Mediterranean climate system; Climate variability since the mid-Holocene; Sources of data; Linking climate variations to the events of human history; CHAPTER TWO : The Vegetative Mediterranean; A sea of plants; The deforested sea; The Mediterranean exchange; Empires of plants I: Rome; Empires of plants II: the caliphate; Conclusion.
- PART II: Turning Points and PhasesCHAPTER THREE : Mediterranean "Prehistory"; The speciating sea; Seafaring and farming; The formative "long" third millennium; Big worlds, small worlds; The making of a middle sea; CHAPTER FOUR : The Ancient Mediterranean; "Mediterranean antiquity"-an abusive relationship?1; Primary production marks out a different world2; "The powers that ruled the sea"3; The accidents of integration4; Maritime civilizations? Ancient history and cross-cultural exchange5; CHAPTER FIVE : The Medieval Mediterranean; The "breakdown of Mediterranean unity."
- From Muslim to Latin MediterraneanFrom a compartmentalized sea to a Mediterranean inserted into complex networks; The production of a "Mediterranean normativity"; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX : The Early Modern Mediterranean; The Ottoman Mediterranean; From Italian to Ottoman merchants; The Mediterranean viewed from the east; The Mediterranean in the world; The question of decline; From traders to imperialists; CHAPTER SEVEN: Mediterranean Modernity?; A modern Mediterranean?; A Mediterranean modernity?; Honor and shame; Patronage and corruption; Cosmopolitanism and modernity; The sea's seven souls.
- CHAPTER EIGHT : Po-Mo MedPART III: Politics and Power; CHAPTER NINE : Thalassocracies; Meanings; Origins; Infrastructures; CHAPTER TEN : Nautical Technology; CHAPTER ELEVEN : Piracy; Three vignettes; Lessons learned; Rethinking the history of Mediterranean piracy; Tactical matters matter; The distinctiveness of Mediterranean piracy; Conclusion; Appendix; CHAPTER TWELVE : Cartography; PART IV: Settlement and Society; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Settlement Patterns; Introduction; Micro-locations; The fission-fusion model; Markets, administrative and military foci.
- Sustaining radii: their transformation over time, and the density of central placesCommerce and empire, settlements and industry, consumer and producer cities; Gateway and entrepreneurial communities; Regional growth trajectories; Warfare; Plans and functions of internal settlement space; Mediterranean uniqueness?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Cave Dwelling; Constructing a chronology of cave living and cut-rock architecture; The morphology of cave villages; Defensive structures; Hydraulic systems; Inside the cave residences; Religious houses; The economy of cave villages.