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Article: The Corrupting Sea: a Study of Mediterranean History.
- Article from:
- Journal of World History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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By PEREGRINE HORDEN AND NICHOLAS PURCELL. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Pp. xiv + 761. $74.95 (cloth).
Toward the beginning of this huge, exceptionally well-written and consistently interesting, but occasionally frustrating book, the authors have a section (pp. 39-43) entitled "The end of the Mediterranean." They explain that with this arresting expression they refer to the apparent waning of the influence of Fernand Braudel's Mediterranee, and to the decline of interest, on the part of historians and geographers, for the region which was the focus of "the most famous piece of modern historical writing" (p. 43). There is perhaps no better evidence of their ...