The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

by: Braudel, F.

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Introduction / Oswyn Murray
'Preamble' / Christopher Logue
1. Seeing the Sea
2. The Long March to Civilization
The lower paleolithic: the first artefacts, the first people
Fire, art and magic
The Mediterranean strikes back: the first agrarian civilization
3. A Twofold Birth
Mesopotamia and Egypt: the beginnings
Boats on the rivers, ships on the sea
Can the spread of megaliths explain the early history of the Mediterranean?
4. Centuries of Unity: the Seas of the Levant 2500-1200 B.C
Ever onward and upward?
Crete: a new player in the cosmopolitan civilization of the Mediterranean
Accidents, developments and disasters
5. All Change: the Twelfth to the Eighth Centuries B.C
6. Colonization: the Discovery of the Mediterranean 'Far West' in the Tenth to Sixth Centuries B.C
The first in the field: probably the Phoenicians
The Etruscans: an unsolved mystery
Colonization by the Greeks
7. The Miracle of Greece
Greece: a land of city-states
Alexander's mistake
Greek science and thought (eighth to second centuries B.C.)
8. The Roman Takeover of the Greater Mediterranean
Roman imperialism
Rome beyond the Mediterranean
A Mediterranean civilization: Rome's real achievement
App. I. Table of Prehistoric Ages and Anthropoids

Subjects:
Altertum
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Antiquities, Prehistoric Mediterranean Region
Civilization
Culture diffusion
Culture diffusion Mediterranean Region
Geschichte
Géographie historique
Historical geography
Mediterranean Region
Mediterranean Region Civilization
Mediterranean Region History To 476
Méditerranée, Région de la Civilisation

The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

by: Braudel, F.

• ISBN-13: 9780713993318 / 978-0-7139-9331-8
• ISBN-03: 0713993316 / 0-7139-9331-6
• Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London, 2001

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock