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Article: The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2001
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Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2000), xiii + 761 pp.; 34 maps. ISBN 0-631-13666-5, 70.00 [pounds sterling]/$74.95 (hard covers); 0-631-21890-4, 24.99 [pounds sterling]/$34.95 (p/ b). And this is only Volume I. In the future we are promised climate, disease, demography, and relations between the Mediterranean and other parts of the world. Here we have ideas of the Mediterranean, microecologies, agriculture, the production and movement of goods, environmental and social crises and responses to them, social anthropology, and (unexpectedly) ...
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Article: The Mediterranean: a Cultural Landscape.
Journal of World History;
September 22, 2002 ;
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... ... have traced Braudel's longue duree to antiquity (Peregrin Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History [Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000]). Predrag Matvejevic offers a subjective perspective on the ...
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