The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 631
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ISBN-10 : 9780141937229
ISBN-13 : 014193722X
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Book Synopsis The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by : Fernand Braudel

Download or read book The Mediterranean in the Ancient World written by Fernand Braudel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes vindicating Braudel, sometimes proving him wrong. Above all the book offers us the chance to situate Braudel's mediterranean, born of a lifetime's love and knowledge, more clearly in the climates of the sea's history.


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