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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Horden, Peregrine - Purcell, Nicholas, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, Oxford, Blackwell, 2000, xiii + 761 pp., il.
- Resum
- "The Corrupting Sea" is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong. This is the first major work since Braudel's The Mediterranean to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time-scale. The authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They draw on an exceptionally wide range of evidence - literary works, documents, archaeology, scientific reports and social anthropology. The themes addressed include past conceptions of the Mediterranean, its historiography, the history of primary production, the rhythms of exchange and communication, the pace of environmental and technological change, the geography of religion, and the contribution of Mediterranean social anthropology to an assessment of the region's unity. The book offers a provocative and innovative approach to the history of the Mediterranean, explaining what has made Mediterranean history distinctive.
Contents:
* Introduction 1
-- Pt. 1 'Frogs round a Pond': Ideas of the Mediterranean 7
* I A Geographical Expression 9
* II A Historian's Mediterranean 26
-- Pt. 2 'Short Distances and Definite Places': Mediterranean Microecologies 51
* III Four Definite Places 53
* IV Ecology and the Larger Settlement 89
* V Connectivity 123
-- Pt. 3 Revolution and Catastrophe 173
* VI Imperatives of Survival: Diversify, Store, Redistribute 175
* VII Technology and Agrarian Change 231
* VIII Mediterranean Catastrophes 298
* IX Mobility of Goods and People 342
-- Pt. 4 The Geography of Religion 401
* X 'Territories of Grace' 403
-- Pt. 5 'Museums of Man'? The Uses of Social Anthropology 461
* XI 'Mists of Time': Anthropology and Continuity 463
* XII 'I Also Have a Moustache': Anthropology and Mediterranean Unity 485
- Matèries
- Història de la cultura
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- URL
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