A companion to Mediterranean history / / edited by Peregrine Horden and Sharon Kinoshita

• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (749 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.09822
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region History
• Persona (resp. second.): HordenPeregrine; KinoshitaSharon
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY; Title page; Copyright page; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Climate and Vegetation; CHAPTER ONE : The Mediterranean Climate; Formation and structure of the Mediterranean climate system; Climate variability since the mid-Holocene; Sources of data; Linking climate variations to the events of human history; CHAPTER TWO : The Vegetative Mediterranean; A sea of plants; The deforested sea; The Mediterranean exchange; Empires of plants I: Rome; Empires of plants II: the caliphate; Conclusion ; PART II: Turning Points and PhasesCHAPTER THREE : Mediterranean "Prehistory"; The speciating sea; Seafaring and farming; The formative "long" third millennium; Big worlds, small worlds; The making of a middle sea; CHAPTER FOUR : The Ancient Mediterranean; "Mediterranean antiquity"-an abusive relationship?1; Primary production marks out a different world2; "The powers that ruled the sea"3; The accidents of integration4; Maritime civilizations? Ancient history and cross-cultural exchange5; CHAPTER FIVE : The Medieval Mediterranean; The "breakdown of Mediterranean unity" ; From Muslim to Latin MediterraneanFrom a compartmentalized sea to a Mediterranean inserted into complex networks; The production of a "Mediterranean normativity"; Conclusion; CHAPTER SIX : The Early Modern Mediterranean; The Ottoman Mediterranean; From Italian to Ottoman merchants; The Mediterranean viewed from the east; The Mediterranean in the world; The question of decline; From traders to imperialists; CHAPTER SEVEN: Mediterranean Modernity?; A modern Mediterranean?; A Mediterranean modernity?; Honor and shame; Patronage and corruption; Cosmopolitanism and modernity; The sea's seven souls ; CHAPTER EIGHT : Po-Mo MedPART III: Politics and Power; CHAPTER NINE : Thalassocracies; Meanings; Origins; Infrastructures; CHAPTER TEN : Nautical Technology; CHAPTER ELEVEN : Piracy; Three vignettes; Lessons learned; Rethinking the history of Mediterranean piracy; Tactical matters matter; The distinctiveness of Mediterranean piracy; Conclusion; Appendix; CHAPTER TWELVE : Cartography; PART IV: Settlement and Society; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Settlement Patterns; Introduction; Micro-locations; The fission-fusion model; Markets, administrative and military foci ; Sustaining radii: their transformation over time, and the density of central placesCommerce and empire, settlements and industry, consumer and producer cities; Gateway and entrepreneurial communities; Regional growth trajectories; Warfare; Plans and functions of internal settlement space; Mediterranean uniqueness?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Cave Dwelling; Constructing a chronology of cave living and cut-rock architecture; The morphology of cave villages; Defensive structures; Hydraulic systems; Inside the cave residences; Religious houses; The economy of cave villages ; The disappearance of troglodyte settlements
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present. Provides a valuable introduction to current debates on Mediterranean history and helps define the field for a new generationCovers developments in the Mediterranean world from Neolithic times to the modern eraEnables fruitful dialogue among a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, ar
• Titolo autorizzato: Companion to mediterranean history
• ISBN: 1-118-51937-X; 1-118-52415-2; 1-118-51935-3; 1-118-51933-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910140291903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell companions to world history.