A Brief History Of The Mediterranean: Indispensable For Travellers Jeremy Black Robinson Αγγλικά Βιβλία General Issues

A Wonderfully Concise And Readable Yet Comprehensive History Of The Mediterranean Sea Perfect Companion For Any Visitor -- Or Indeed Anyone Compelled To Stay At Home \ Grand Object Travelling Is See Shores Samuel Johnson 1776The Has Always Been Leading Stage World It Also Visited Each Year By Tens Millions Tourists Both Local International Jeremy Black Provides An Account In Which Experience Travel Foremost: Tourism Trade War Migration Culture As So Often Variety Reasons Travellers Have Had Goals Situations From Rulers Slaves Merchants Pirates Covers Them All Phoenicians Modern Tourist Sailing Pleasure Cruising Great Comfort Throughout Book Emphasis On Coastal Regions Port Cities Cruise Liners - Athens Barcelona Naples Palermo But Looks Beyond Notably Other Waters That Flow Into Atlantic Red Rivers Ebro Rhone Nile Much Western Eurasia Northern Africa Played Continues Play Role Directly Indirectly Fate Times Can Make Conflict After Necessary Understand These Wars Order Grasp Changing Boundaries States Societies Religions Buildings Left Peoples\ Cultures Senses Identity Histories Explores Centrality Beginning Antiquity With Minoans Greeks He Shows How Roman Empire United Was Later Divided Christianity Islam Tells Story Rise Fall Maritime Empires Pisa Genoa Venice Describes Galley Warfare Evolved Fired Imagination Shakespeare Among Many Artists Renaissance Baroque Seventeenth-Century Beginnings English Aegean Sicily Destinations Examines Mediterraean Naval Power Grew Culminating Nelson\ S Famous Victory Over French Battle Establishment Gibraltar Minorca Malta Bases Explains Retreat North Age Steam Navigation Why British Occupied Cyprus Egypt Ionian Islands Impact Suez Canal New Route India Riviera Became Europe\ Playground Central Two Cold Ongoing Conflicts Middle East Its Focus Particularly Alexandria Salonika Σελίδες: 320 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0929 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm