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Jun 17, 2011 david abulafia s history of the mediterranean takes in ancient empires and modern tourists tim whitmarsh fri 17 jun 2011 18. David abulafias the great sea is the first complete history of the. Professor abulafias academic inter ests also include a wide range of social, economic and religious issues in ancient, medieval and early modern history. Beginning more than 20,000 years ago with cromagnon cave dwellers on gibraltar and stretching to the present, abulafia treats the great sea as the liquid continent, a place peopled and traveledwhere trade, cultural. First published in 2011, it is a history of the mediterranean sea from 22,000 bc to the present time, and provides one of the most comprehensive treatments of the subject since the works of fernand braudel. David abulafia s history of the mediterranean takes in ancient empires and modern tourists.
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