Peregrine Horden (University of London Royal Holloway), Nicholas Purcell (Oxford St John's College)

Broschiertes Buch

The Corrupting Sea

A Study of Mediterranean History

Beschreibung

An analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disease, deforestation, technological innovation and anthropology of Mediterranean communities.

Autor

Peregrine Horden is Wellcome Trust Research Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Royal Holloway, University of London. Nicholas Purcell is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, St John's College, Oxford. They began studying Mediterranean history when both were Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1312g
• ISBN-13: 9780631218906
• ISBN-10: 0631218904
• Artikelnr.: 21853020

Rezensionen

"The Corrupting Sea is a book that all classicistsshould read." Classical Review

"In their book The Corrupting Sea, Horden and Purcellhave engaged in one of the most relentless intellectualreassessments to have been undertaken in recent times of thehistory of the pre-industrial Mediterranean. One seldom emergesfrom a book as rich as this, having had so many firmly-held notionsshaken out of one's mind and having glimpsed so many enthrallingnew vistas on a once-familiar past." Professor Peter Brown,Princeton University

"To bring together the economic and social history of so manyperiods and places within the great story of the Mediterranean is aremarkable achievement and Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcellshould be

congratulated upon it." Professor Colin Renfrew,McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University ofCambridge

"In recreating the Mediterranean for the new millennium, theauthors offer a substantial achievement that challenges manylong-held assumptions not only about the Mediterranean, but alsoabout human relations with the environment and even the very natureof historical writing. It certainly deserves to provoke discussionamong scholars from fields as broad as its own grand scope."Times Higher Education Supplement

"The Corrupting Sea is a book of magisterial synthesisand scholarship - a huge multi-disciplinary literature turned intoa narrative that is at once comprehensive, enjoyable, quirky andthought-provoking." Antiquity

"This book will be indispensable for the serious student of theMediterranean past and present." CHOICE

"This is an important book that presents a powerful and originalmodel of Mediterranean history that will be used, debated, andcriticized by historians of all periods for years to come."English Historical Review

"Horden and Purcell's new Mediterranean panorama, which willtake a generation of historians to digest and implement, forms oneof those manifest watersheds in the study of antiquity." Journalof Roman Archaeology

"This book amounts to an often fascinating, and unerringlyuseful, compendium." International History Review

"Here a generation of ecological historians ... has led the way.Horden and Purcell have synthesized that literature, extended itsreach into the Middle Ages, and made it accessible to the generalmedievalist." Speculum

"This impressive work synthesizes a vast amount of historical,geographical, archaelogical, and ethnographic knowledge about theMediterranean region." Historical Geography