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The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870 : A Geohistorical Approach.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (443 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421402604
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870DDC classification:
  • 909/.0982205
LOC classification:
  • GF541 .T23 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unrelieved Weight of Wealth in the Inner Sea -- PART I: OF CITIES OF SAINTS AND RICH TRADES -- 1 Empires and Empire-Building City-States -- 2 City-States and the Inner Sea -- 3 Eclipse of the City-States and the Resurfacing of the Mediterranean -- PART II: OF MALARIAL PLAINS AND ARBOREAL HILLS -- 4 Reversal in the Fortunes of the Plains -- 5 New World of the Hills -- Conclusion: The Mediterranean between the Leek-Green Sea and the Green Sea -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Integrating the story of the western and eastern Mediterranean--from Genoa and the Habsburg empire to Venice and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires--Tabak unveils the complex process of devolution and regeneration that brought about the eclipse of the Mediterranean.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unrelieved Weight of Wealth in the Inner Sea -- PART I: OF CITIES OF SAINTS AND RICH TRADES -- 1 Empires and Empire-Building City-States -- 2 City-States and the Inner Sea -- 3 Eclipse of the City-States and the Resurfacing of the Mediterranean -- PART II: OF MALARIAL PLAINS AND ARBOREAL HILLS -- 4 Reversal in the Fortunes of the Plains -- 5 New World of the Hills -- Conclusion: The Mediterranean between the Leek-Green Sea and the Green Sea -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Integrating the story of the western and eastern Mediterranean--from Genoa and the Habsburg empire to Venice and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires--Tabak unveils the complex process of devolution and regeneration that brought about the eclipse of the Mediterranean.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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