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The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550–1870: A Geohistorical Approach
Faruk Tabak
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 750.
Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting fortunes of Mediterranean city-states and empires in patterns of long-term economic and ecological change, this study shows how the quintessential properties of the basin-the trinity of cereals, tree crops, and small livestock-were reestablished as the Mediterranean's importance in global commerce, agriculture, and politics waned. Tabak narrates this history not from the vantage point ... Read more
Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting fortunes of Mediterranean city-states and empires in patterns of long-term economic and ecological change, this study shows how the quintessential properties of the basin-the trinity of cereals, tree crops, and small livestock-were reestablished as the Mediterranean's importance in global commerce, agriculture, and politics waned. Tabak narrates this history not from the vantage point ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801887208
SKU
V9780801887208
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About Faruk Tabak
Faruk Tabak (1954-2008) was Ertegun Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Studies at Georgetown University.
Reviews for The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550–1870: A Geohistorical Approach
Insightful, incisive, and fascinating... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice 2008 This extremely ambitious volume attempts to provide a comprehensive portrait of the transformation of the Mediterranean's economy during its traditionally acknowledged decline.
Maria Fusaro International Journal of Maritime History 2008 This book is worthy of study for anyone interested in what preceded the modern period in the ... Read more
Maria Fusaro International Journal of Maritime History 2008 This book is worthy of study for anyone interested in what preceded the modern period in the ... Read more