The Mediterranean in History
Edited by David Abulafia
With texts by Oliver Rackham
Marlene Suano
Mario Torelli
Geoffrey Rickman
John Pryor
Michel Balard
Molly Greene
Jeremy Black
David Abulafia
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| ‘... a beautifully produced work celebrating the dynamic and diverse history of the European world’ | | – BBC History Magazine |
| ‘Magnificent, and not just decorative’ | | – The Sunday Times |
| ‘An outstanding book ... demonstrates how the past, when approached with a passion for explanation and understanding, spices rather than dilutes the present’ | | – The Jewish Chronicle |
| ‘… dazzling’ | | – Peter Stothard, The Times |
Here is the only complete and up-to-date overview of
one of the great themes of world history.
See the Complete Contents page
For over four thousand years the Mediterranean was the centre of Western civilization. It has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
David Abulafia, doyen of Mediterranean scholars, has brought together a team of leading specialists from many countries to tell this enthralling and complex story as a connected narrative: from the physical setting, the prehistoric traders and the struggle between Phoenicians, Greeks and Etruscans ending in Roman victory, to the post-Roman nations, the Christian powers in the north, the Islamic powers in the south, the domination by England and France, and finally the twentieth century, a century divided between war and mass tourism.
Fifty years ago Fernand Braudel created a new historical school, emphasizing environmental factors, to analyse the way the whole Mediterranean was interdependent in the reign of Philip II. This new study not only covers all of recorded history, but fully reflects the findings of recent research, using tools ranging from linguistics to underwater archaeology to extend the frontiers of knowledge.
The carefully chosen, meticulously reproduced and spectacular illustrations add a dimension of their own.
David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranen History at the University of Cambridge.
Also of interest:
Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe
The Christian World: A Social and Cultural History of Christianity
The World of Islam:Faith, People, Culture
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500251207 | | ISBN-13 978-0500251201 | | | | 28.0 x 21.9 cm | | Hardback | | 320pp | | 308 illustrations, 161 in colour | | First published 2003 | | | | £29.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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