Description
Product ID: | 9780140283556 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Mediterranean in the Ancient World |
Authors: | Author: Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Mediterranean Sea, BCE to c 500 CE |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciate the state of scholarship at the time of writing. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-04-25 |