Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell

The Boundless Sea

Writing Mediterranean History

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry - cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors' studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology. (CS1083).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367221263
• ISBN-10: 0367221268
• Artikelnr.: 57941967

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. The Mediterranean and the 'New Thalassology' American Historical Review
special issue
Forum
'Oceans of History'
111.3 (2006)
pp. 722-40 2. Years of Corruption: Response to Critics [of The Corrupting Sea] Rethinking the Mediterranean
ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2005)
pp. 348-75 3. The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness?: On Defining the Mediterranean Mediterranean Historical Review
18.2 (2003)
pp. 9-29 4. Fixity Mobility and Travel from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
ed. R. Schlesier and U. Zellmann (Berlin: Lit
2004)
pp. 74-83 5. Meshwork: Towards a Historical Ecology of Mediterranean Cities The Mediterranean Cities between Myth and Reality
ed. F. Frediani (Lugano: Nerbini
2014)
pp. 37-51 6. The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House Rethinking the Mediterranean
ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2005)
pp. 200-32 7. Colonisation and Mediterranean History Ancient Colonizations: Analogy
Similarity and Difference
ed. H. Hurst and S. Owen (London: Bristol Classical Press
2005)
pp. 115-39 8. The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages Not previously published 9. Water in Mediterranean History Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002
ed. J. Trottier and P. Slack (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2004)
pp. 35-49 10. Tide
Beach
and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography
ed. P. N. Miller (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
2013)
pp. 84-108 11. Situations Both Alike? Connectivity
the Mediterranean
the Sahara Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
ed. J. McDougall and J. Scheele (Bloomington: Indiana University Press
2012)
pp. 25-38 12. Mediterranean Connectivity: A Comparative Approach New Horizons: Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century
ed. M. Dabag
D. Haller
N. Jaspert
and A. Lichtenberger (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink/Ferdinand Schöningh
2016)
pp. 211-24 Index

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Preface

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. The Mediterranean and the 'New Thalassology'
   American Historical Review, special issue, Forum, 'Oceans of History', 111.3 (2006), pp. 722-40



2. Years of Corruption: Response to Critics [of The Corrupting Sea]
   Rethinking the Mediterranean, ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 348-75



3. The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness?: On Defining the Mediterranean
   Mediterranean Historical Review, 18.2 (2003), pp. 9-29



4. Fixity
   Mobility and Travel from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. R. Schlesier and U. Zellmann (Berlin: Lit, 2004), pp. 74-83



5. Meshwork: Towards a Historical Ecology of Mediterranean Cities
   The Mediterranean Cities between Myth and Reality, ed. F. Frediani (Lugano: Nerbini, 2014), pp. 37-51



6. The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House
   Rethinking the Mediterranean, ed. W. V. Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 200-32



7. Colonisation and Mediterranean History
   Ancient Colonizations: Analogy, Similarity and Difference, ed. H. Hurst and S. Owen (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2005), pp. 115-39



8. The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages
   Not previously published



9. Water in Mediterranean History
   Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002, ed. J. Trottier and P. Slack (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 35-49



10. Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories
    The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, ed. P. N. Miller (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), pp. 84-108



11. Situations Both Alike? Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara
    Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa, ed. J. McDougall and J. Scheele (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), pp. 25-38



12. Mediterranean Connectivity: A Comparative Approach
    New Horizons: Mediterranean Research in the 21st Century, ed. M. Dabag, D. Haller, N. Jaspert, and A. Lichtenberger (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016), pp. 211-24
    

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Rezensionen

'The Boundless Sea does a good job making a case for a new kind of historiography. It's easy to imagine how Horden and Purcell's model of regional environmental history could be fruitfully applied to other regions that can in turn be connected to each other... There are many exciting possibilities for collaboration in such an endeavor, precisely because it's too big for one person (or two) to tackle even over decades. In this sense, Horden and Purcell suggest that the new world history will be a team project rather than one person's Grand Theory of Everything. The papers in this volume provide many insightful suggestions about how such a project might unfold' - Bryn Mawr Classical Review