The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean
| 1. Verfasser: |
Abulafia, David
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Allen Lane,
2011.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxxi, 783 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Pt. 1. The first Mediterranean, 22000 BC-1000 BC. Isolation and insulation, 22000 BC-3000 BC
- Copper and bronze, 3000 BC-1500 BC
- Merchants and heroes, 1500 BC-1250 BC
- Sea peoples and land peoples, 1250 BC-1100 BC
- Pt. 2. The second Mediterranean, 1000 BC-AD 600. The purple traders, 1000 BC-700 BC
- The heirs of Odysseus, 800 BC-550 BC
- The triumph of the Tyrrhenians, 800 BC-400 BC
- Towards the garden of the Hesperides, 1000 BC-400 BC
- Thalassocracies, 550 BC-400 BC
- The lighthouse of the Mediterranean, 350 BC-100 BC
- ’Carthage must be destroyed,’ 400 BC-146 BC
- ’Our sea,’ 146 BC-AD 150
- Old and new faiths, AD 1-450
- Dis-integration, 400-600
- Pt. 3. The third Mediterranean, 600-1350. Mediterranean troughs, 600-900
- Crossing the boundaries between Christendom and Islam, 900-1050
- The great sea-change, 1000-1100
- ’The profit that God shall give,’ 1100-1200
- Ways across the sea, 1160-1185
- The fall and rise of empires, 1130-1260
- Merchants, mercenaries and missionaries, 1220-1300
- Serrata
- closing, 1291-1350
- Pt. 4. The fourth Mediterranean, 1350-1830. Would-be Roman emperors, 1350-1480
- Transformations in the West, 1391-1500
- Holy leagues and unholy alliances, 1500-1550
- Akdeniz
- the battle for the White Sea, 1550-1571
- Interlopers in the Mediterranean, 1571-1650
- Diasporas in despair, 1560-1700
- Encouragement to others, 1650-1780
- The view through the Russian prism, 1760-1805
- Deys, beys, and bashaws, 1800-1830
- Pt. 5. The fifth Mediterranean, 1830-2010. Ever the twain shall meet, 1830-1900
- The Greek and the unGreek, 1830-1920
- Ottoman exit, 1900-1918
- A tale of four and a half cities, 1900-1950
- Mare nostrum
- again, 1918-1945
- A fragmented Mediterranean, 1945-1990
- The last Mediterranean, 1950-2010
- Conclusion : Crossing the sea.
