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The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
Fernand Braudel
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Description for The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
paperback. Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciate the state of scholarship at the time of writing. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 432 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSM; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin UK
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
297g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140283556
SKU
V9780140283556
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99-5
About Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel was France's foremost post-war historian. He is best known for The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism and The Identity of France. This will be Braudel's final major posthumous publication. Sian Reynolds has translated all the great Braudel books published in English. She is recognised as one of the leading translators of ... Read more
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