The Boundless Sea: Writing Mediterranean History [1 ed.] 0367221268, 9780367221263

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The Mediterranean and ‘The New Thalassology’
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IV
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VI
Notes
Chapter 2 Years of Corruption: Some Responses to Critics [of The Corrupting Sea]
I Quid eis cum pelago? The response by discipline
II Les auteurs ne se noient jamais dans leur Méditerranée: theory and scope
III Doughnuts in cyberspace: finding the metaphor
IV Falsifiability
V Monstrous squid or calamari?
VI Doing without towns
VII Managing monotheisms
VIII Render unto Caesar: in quest of narrative
Notes
Chapter 3 The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness?: On Defining the Mediterranean
I The origins of corruption
II Not ours: some difficulties with appropriation
III What kind of edges? Towards Mediterranean désenclavement
IV Histoire à très large échelle
Notes
Chapter 4 Fixity
I Claims about fixity
II The essential implausibility of fixity
III Christian realism?
IV The uses of fixity
Notes
Selected general bibliography
Chapter 5 Meshwork: Towards a Historical Ecology of Mediterranean Cities
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IV
V
Notes
Chapter 6 The Ancient Mediterranean: The View from the Customs House
I On the usefulness of the history of taxation
II Taxation and mobility
III Three phases of Mediterranean evidence
IV Managing interdependence: the nature of the network
V Progressive regression?
VI Athens and Rome: Mediterranean and other hegemonies
VII The edges of the system: conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7 Colonisation and Mediterranean History
I Introduction
II Agrosystems and seaways
III Frontiers and mobilities
IV The ‘most resettled land known’: the example of south Italy
V Conclusion: problems of focus
Notes
Chapter 8 The Mediterranean and the European Economy in the Early Middle Ages
I The Mediterranean and Europe
II Depressions?
III Communications
IV Oppressions
V Reckonings
Notes
Chapter 9 Water in Mediterranean History
Notes
Chapter 10 Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories
I Introductory
II Two problems with thalassography
III The beach: maritime onset – becoming maritime
IV The tide: maritime mobilisation
V The backwash: spaces of recursivity
VI A place of thalassography: the West Asian hinge
Notes
Chapter 11 Situations Both Alike?: Connectivity, the Mediterranean, the Sahara
Connectivity
Saharan routes
Modern routes
Nodes
Ramifications
Notes
Chapter 12 Mediterranean Connectivity: A Comparative Approach
I Changing horizons
II The Sahara
III The Silk Road
IV Europe
V Conclusion?
Notes
Index