The waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870 : a geohistorical approach /
"Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Unrelieved Weight of Wealth in the Inner Sea; PART I: OF CITIES OF SAINTS AND RICH TRADES; 1 Empires and Empire-Building City-States; 2 City-States and the Inner Sea; 3 Eclipse of the City-States and the Resurfacing of the Mediterranean; PART II: OF MALARIAL PLAINS AND ARBOREAL HILLS; 4 Reversal in the Fortunes of the Plains; 5 New World of the Hills; Conclusion: The Mediterranean between the Leek-Green Sea and the Green Sea; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.