The Making of the Middle Sea : a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the Classical world / Cyprian Broodbank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broodbank, Cyprian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mediterranean Sea--History.

Mediterranean Sea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (981 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, [2015]

Summary:

A masterpiece of archaeological and historical writing, 'The Making of the Middle Sea' is extensively illustrated and ranges across disciplines, subject matter and chronology from early humans to the rise of civilizations - Egyptian, Minoan, Mycenaean, Phoenician, Etruscan, early Greek and pan-Mediterranean. It is the only up-to-date, full, interpretive synthesis on the rise of the Mediterranean world from its beginnings to the threshold of Classical times. The author is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. '... offers us a Mediterranean like nothing we have seen before, in vivid and commanding prose that sweeps majestically across time and space while providing a stunning granularity of detail' - Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

About the Author

Other Titles of Interest

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Topographical Map

Chronological Tables

Chapter One: A barbarian history

Chapter Two: Provocative places

Chapter Three: The speciating sea

Chapter Four: A cold coming we had of it

Color Plates I

Chapter Five: Brave new worlds

Chapter Six: How it might have been

Color Plates II

Chapter Seven: The devil and the deep blue sea

Chapter Eight: Pomp and circumstance

Color Plates III

Chapter Nine: From sea to shining sea

Chapter Ten: The end of the beginning

Color Plates IV

Chapter Eleven: De profundis

Notes

Bibliography

Sources of illustrations

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780500771853

0500771855

OCLC:

1007930357