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On the ocean : the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500 /

The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cunliffe, Barry W. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Édition:First edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Those in peril on the sea
  • The combat that is called navigation
  • Taking to the sea
  • Two seas, many responses, 5300-1200 BC
  • The eastern Mediterranean cauldron, 5300-1200 BC
  • Exploring the ends of the world, 1200-600 BC
  • Of ships and sails: a technical interlude
  • Exploring the outer ocean, 600-100 BC
  • The Atlantic community, 100 BC
  • AD 500
  • An end and a beginning, 300-800
  • 11. The age of the Northmen, 780-1100
  • The new European order, 1100-1400
  • The ocean conquered, 1400-1510
  • Reflections on the ocean
  • Glossary of nautical terms.