The corrupting sea : a study of Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Description: xiii, 761 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 0631218904 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0631136665 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Mediterranean Region -- Civilization | Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Sources | Mediterranean Region -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: SourcesLOC classification: DE59 | .H7 2000DE59 | .H7 2000XItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | The BIAA David H. French Library Shelf 27 - Main Room | B3a HORDE 19729 | Not for loan | BOOKS*000000018432 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [642]-736) and index.
Part 1 'Frogs round a Pond': Ideas of the Mediterranean 7 -- Part 2 'Short Distances and Definite Places': Mediterranean Microecologies 51 -- Part 3 Revolution and Catastrophe 173 -- Part 4 The Geography of Religion 401 -- Part 5 'Museums of Man'? The Uses of Social Anthropology 461.
"The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong. This is the first major work since Braudel's The Mediterranean to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time-scale." "The authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They draw on an exceptionally wide range of evidence - literary works, documents, archaeology, scientific reports and social anthropology."--Jacket.
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