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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

David Abulafia

How did the people who sailed and lived by the Mediterranean link it into one shared world, and why did those links keep breaking?

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Author
David Abulafia

Why read it

  • You will see the past through traders, sailors and port cities
  • You will understand how links between peoples build up, then fall apart through war or plague
  • You will stop looking for one single Mediterranean identity and notice the mix of peoples instead

Who it is for

  • A traveller who wants the long story of the places they visit
  • A history reader tired of histories bounded by national borders
  • Someone curious how trade routes shape cultures and religions

Contents

  1. The Great Sea
  2. System of Transliteration and Dating
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: A Sea with Many Names
  5. PART ONE
  6. The First Mediterranean, 22000 BC–1000 BC
  7. Isolation and Insulation, 22000 BC–3000 BC
  8. I
  9. II
  10. III
  11. IV
  12. Copper and Bronze, 3000 BC–1500 BC
  13. I
  14. II
  15. III
  16. IV
  17. Merchants and Heroes, 1500 BC–1250 BC
  18. I
  19. II
  20. Sea Peoples and Land Peoples, 1250 BC–1100 BC
  21. I
  22. II
  23. III
  24. IV
  25. V
  26. PART TWO
  27. The Second Mediterranean, 1000 BC–AD 600
  28. The Purple Traders, 1000 BC–700 BC
  29. I
  30. II
  31. III
  32. IV
  33. The Heirs of Odysseus, 800 BC–550 BC
  34. I
  35. II
  36. III
  37. The Triumph of the Tyrrhenians, 800 BC–400 BC
  38. I
  39. II
  40. III
  41. IV
  42. V
  43. VI
  44. Towards the Garden of the Hesperides, 1000 BC–400 BC
  45. I
  46. II
  47. III
  48. Thalassocracies, 550 BC–400 BC
  49. I
  50. II
  51. III
  52. IV
  53. The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean, 350 BC–100 BC
  54. I
  55. II
  56. III
  57. IV
  58. ‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed’, 400 BC–146 BC
  59. I
  60. II

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