THE GREAT SEA

THE GREAT SEA

ABULAFIA, DAVID / 0 (Ilustración)

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PENGUIN BOOKS, S.A.
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Libros en Inglés
Ubicación
B-1900
ISBN:
978-0-14-197716-4
Páginas:
816
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The first complete history of ‘probably the most vigorous place of interaction between different societies on the face of the planet.’ From the stone-age to the present day the Mediterranean has been criss-crossed by traders, invaders, pilgrims, slaves and migrants. This book chronicles these human journeys and the ideas and culture that they helped to spread. It covers the major empires and world religions that grew up on its shores but concentrates on the sea itself and its influence on the politics, cultures and economies of the region through the millennia. The sea is revealed a as source of food, means of communication and scene of mass immigration and emigration in this dynamic story of human

David Abulafia (1949) es catedrático de Historia del Mediterráneo en la Universidad de Cambridge, y fellow del Gonville and Caius College. Hasta hace poco fue también Chairman de la Facultad de Historia. Es también fellow de la British Academy y miembro de la Academia Europea, y en 2003 fue nombrado Commendatore dell?Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana como reconocimiento por sus trabajos sobre el Mediterráneo. Entre sus obras anteriores destacan Frederick II: a medieval emperor (1988), El Mediterráneo en la Historia (2004), El descubrimiento de la humanidad (2008).

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