Research Catalog

Title

The corrupting sea : a study of Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell.

Author

Horden, Peregrine

Publication

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Purcell, Nicholas

Description

xiii, 761 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Mediterranean Region > Civilization
• Mediterranean Region > Civilization > Sources
• Mediterranean Region > Historiography

Genre/Form

Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [642]-736) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0631218904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0631136665 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99034343^

OCLC

• 42692026
• SCSB-10184108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library