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The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

Cyprian Broodbank

What do you see when you tell the story of the Mediterranean as the story of its people, climate, sea and land together?

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Author
Cyprian Broodbank

Why read it

  • You will see how climate, geography and human choices work together across long stretches of history
  • You will learn that grand changes usually trace back to small early starts, and that outright collapse is rarer than it looks
  • You will pick up how archaeologists read the past from broken pottery and surface finds

Who it is for

  • A traveller who wants to see the Mediterranean with a deeper past
  • Someone who wants the story before Greece and Rome
  • A student weighing how climate and environment shape societies

Contents

  1. Other Titles of Interest
  2. Chronological Tables
  3. Chapter One: A barbarian history
  4. Chapter Two: Provocative places
  5. Chapter Three: The speciating sea
  6. Chapter Four: A cold coming we had of it
  7. Color Plates I
  8. Chapter Five: Brave new worlds
  9. Chapter Six: How it might have been
  10. Color Plates II
  11. Chapter Seven: The devil and the deep blue sea
  12. Chapter Eight: Pomp and circumstance
  13. Color Plates III
  14. Chapter Nine: From sea to shining sea
  15. Chapter Ten: The end of the beginning
  16. Color Plates IV
  17. Chapter Eleven: De profundis
  18. Sources of illustrations

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