Two Mediterranean Worlds

Author : Yassine Essid,William D. Coleman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774823203

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Two Mediterranean Worlds by Yassine Essid,William D. Coleman Pdf

Why are globalizing processes unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect do these disparities have on the lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the wealthier nations of the north shore and their poorer neighbours to the south. The divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures of these two regions lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations that have sparked unrest in North Africa and the Near East.

Author : Monique O'Connell,Eric R Dursteler
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421419022

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The Mediterranean World by Monique O'Connell,Eric R Dursteler Pdf

A history of this hub of culture and commerce: “Enviable readability . . . an excellent classroom text.” —European History Quarterly Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intense economic, cultural, and political interaction. Greek temples in Sicily, Roman ruins in North Africa, and Ottoman fortifications in Greece serve as reminders that the Mediterranean has no fixed national boundaries or stable ethnic and religious identities. In The Mediterranean World, Monique O’Connell and Eric R. Dursteler examine the history of this contested region from the medieval to the early modern era, beginning with the fall of Rome around 500 CE and closing with Napoleon’s attempted conquest of Egypt in 1798. Arguing convincingly that the Mediterranean should be studied as a singular unit, the authors explore the centuries when no lone power dominated the Mediterranean Sea and invaders brought their own unique languages and cultures to the region. Structured around four interlocking themes—mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers—this book, including maps, photos, and illustrations, brings new dimensions to the concepts of Mediterranean nationality and identity.

Author : Fernand Braudel
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141937229

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The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520969001

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The Sea in the Middle by Thomas E Burman,Brian A. Catlos,Mark D. Meyerson Pdf

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in an age when Christians, Muslims, and Jews of various denominations engaged with each other in both conflict and collaboration. Key features: Fifteen-chapter structure to aid classroom use Sections in each chapter that feature key artifacts relevant to chapter themes Dynamic visuals, including 190 photos and 20 maps The Sea in the Middle and its sourcebook companion, Texts from the Middle, pair together to provide a framework and materials that guide students through this complex but essential history—one that will appeal to the diverse student bodies of today.

Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136673054

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The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron Pdf

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean society as a whole before the Arab conquests. Two new chapters survey the situation in the east after the death of Justinian and cover the Byzantine wars with Persia, religious developments in the eastern Mediterranean during the life of Muhammad, the reign of Heraclius, the Arab conquests and the establishment of the Umayyad caliphate. Using the latest in-depth archaeological evidence, this all-round historical and thematic study of the west and the eastern empire has become the standard work on the period. The new edition takes account of recent research on topics such as the barbarian ‘invasions’, periodization, and questions of decline or continuity, as well as the current interest in church councils, orthodoxy and heresy and the separation of the miaphysite church in the sixth-century east. It contains a new introductory survey of recent scholarship on the fourth century AD, and has a full bibliography and extensive notes with suggestions for further reading. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 395-700 AD continues to be the benchmark for publications on the history of Late Antiquity and is indispensible to anyone studying the period.

Author : David A. Wacks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505011

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Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World by David A. Wacks Pdf

Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.

Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522889

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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World by J. R. McNeill Pdf

An environmental history of the mountain areas of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco.

Author : Colin Heywood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000943993

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The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1660–1760 by Colin Heywood Pdf

Dr Heywood’s second volume of collected papers in the Variorum series brings together fourteen studies published between 2000 and 2010. They represent two of the main strands of his interests during the past decade: the era of Ottoman history dominated by the ministerial family of Köprülü; and the maritime history of the ’post-Braudelian’ Mediterranean, in the later 17th and early 18th centuries. Aspects of the Köprülü era under examination in Part One include the shifting chronology of the Çehrin campaign of 1678; a study of the role of renegades in Ottoman service, linked in this instance to the Venetian betrayal of the Cretan fortress of Grabusa to the Ottomans in 1691, and a study of the reorganisation of the Ottoman state courier service in 1696, together with three studies of English diplomacy at the Porte during the ’Long War’ of 1683-99. In Part Two maritime and Mediterranean themes predominate. Four papers revolve around the complexities of the English maritime and commercial presence in Algiers in the decades before and after 1700, and two examine the Ottoman maritime frontier in the western Mediterranean and in the Aegean in the same period. The volume concludes with a look at the daily (and mainly maritime) uncertainties in the life of the French community in Cyprus at the turn of the eighteenth century, and an examination of the emergence of Fernand Braudel’s intellectual involvement with Ottoman history, down to the publication in 1949 of his epochal study of the Mediterranean in the age of Philip II.

Author : Oğuz Tekin,Remziye Boyraz Seyhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Coins
ISBN : 6052116692

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Second International Congress on the of History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, 5-8 January 2017, Antalya : Proceedings by Oğuz Tekin,Remziye Boyraz Seyhan Pdf

Author : James Harvey McGregor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300197464

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Back to the Garden by James Harvey McGregor Pdf

A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region argues that the world's present environmental crisis is a result of the Western world's abandonment of a harmonious interrelationship between human communities and the natural world.

Author : Justin Leidwanger,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429948

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Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Justin Leidwanger,Carl Knappett Pdf

This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.

Author : Sean Roberts
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071612

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Printing a Mediterranean World by Sean Roberts Pdf

In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on this journey. Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Simultaneously, the use of the Geographia as a diplomatic gift from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells another story. This exchange expands our understanding of Mediterranean politics, European perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman interest in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine state, which chose not to bestow some other highly valued good, such as the city’s renowned textiles, but instead the best example of what Florentine visual, material, and intellectual culture had to offer.

Author : Sarah Davis-Secord
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501712586

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Where Three Worlds Met by Sarah Davis-Secord Pdf

In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.

Author : Angela Biancofiore,Clément Barniaudy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501378942

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Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds by Angela Biancofiore,Clément Barniaudy Pdf

This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds, seen in light of how they evolve, disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective intends to build bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts of the sea in order to broaden and deepen our understanding of current evolutions in Mediterranean worlds, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels. As Paul Valéry suggested, we can consider this plural space from the perspective of the intense cultural, economic and human exchanges which have always characterized the Mare Nostrum. We can also consider Mediterranean worlds within an open enactive process, deeply exploring their evolution between nature and culture, examining the natural environment and the transforming relationships between humans and non-humans. The writers and researchers in Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds call for a dialog between the two coasts in order to connect what has been broken. In this volume, they highlight an intercultural and creolized conscience, traversing the Mediterranean worlds – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, but also migrations from, to and within the region – and transcending any idea of communitarian withdrawal. These essays express the urgent need to shift from an understanding of migration as suffering to the notion that mobility is an unalienable right, building foundations for a new idea of global citizenship.

Author : J. G. Manning
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202303

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The Open Sea by J. G. Manning Pdf

"In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single "ancient economy" has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region's economies became increasingly interconnected during this period." -- Publisher's description