The waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870 : a geohistorical approach

The waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870 : a geohistorical approach / Faruk Tabak.

"Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of...

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Main Author: Tabak, Faruk
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Mediterranean Region > History.
Human geography > Mediterranean Region > History.
Ecology
Human ecology
Human geography
Anthropogeografie
Humanökologie
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Umweltveränderung
Wirtschaft
Geschichte.
Umweltveränderung.
Humanökologie.
Sozioökonomischer Wandel.
Anthropogeographie.
Mediterranean Region > Environmental conditions.
Mediterranean Region > History.
Mediterranean Region
Mittelmeerraum
Mittelmeerraum > Geschichte.
Mittelmeerraum.
Medelhavsländerna > historia.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Unrelieved Weight of Wealth in the Inner Sea; PART I: OF CITIES OF SAINTS AND RICH TRADES; 1 Empires and Empire-Building City-States; 2 City-States and the Inner Sea; 3 Eclipse of the City-States and the Resurfacing of the Mediterranean; PART II: OF MALARIAL PLAINS AND ARBOREAL HILLS; 4 Reversal in the Fortunes of the Plains; 5 New World of the Hills; Conclusion: The Mediterranean between the Leek-Green Sea and the Green Sea; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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