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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808332103321

Autore

Tabak Faruk

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-4214-0260-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

909/.0982205

Soggetti

Human geography - Mediterranean Region - History

Human ecology - Mediterranean Region - History

Mediterranean Region History

Mediterranean Region Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-415) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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