The Mediterranean in History

In this richly illustrated volume, eight distinguished historians explore the facts, themes, and epochs of the history of the “Great Sea”:

• the physical setting
• the rivalry between Carthaginians, Greeks, and Etruscans for control of sea routes
• unification under Rome and the subsequent break up into Western Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam
• the Crusades
• commerce in medieval times
• the Ottoman resurgence
• the rivalry of European powers from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries
• and the globa...