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Title: Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History by Peregrin Horden, Nicholas Purcell, Peregrine Horden ISBN: 0-631-21890-4 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mediterranean microecological connectivity
Comment: Mediterranean microecological connectivity
I like reading history. I enjoy with it. I am not a professional historian. In the last few years I have tried and read books offering a broad scope and general overviews of history such as this one.
In this work, the authors intend to study Mediterranean history as a whole, the history of the region. For them, the Mediterranean is only loosely defined, distinguishable from its neighbours to degrees that vary with time, geographical direction and topic. Its boundaries are not the sort to be drawn easily on a map. Its continuities are best thought of continuities of form or pattern, within which all is mutability.
In that sense, the distinctiveness of Mediterranean history results (they propose) from the paradoxical coexistence of a milieu of relatively easy seaborne communications with a quite unusually fragmented topography of microregions in the sea's coastlands and islands. The different chapters of the book are aimed to impressionistically show some of the prime ingredients in the normal variability and connectivity of Mediterranean microregions: the shifting along a spectrum of possibilities; the fluctuating relations between pastoralism and agriculture; the manipulative state with its taxes and symbols; the mobility of people both voluntarily -economic migration- and compulsory -military service- (not necessarily very distinct); a history of Mediterranean redistribution as inseparable from that of the people (who are often profoundly mobile) who produce, store, process, transport and consume.
The authors also warn that several central topics have been reserved for a Volume 2 to come in the future: climate, disease, demography and the relations between the Mediterranean and other major areas of the globe.
I have rated it four starts. Considering its content, I think it should be five; considering its readability, three (sometimes falling to two, sometimes raising to four).
Other books of "global history" I would recommend to read are "The Rise of the West" by William H. McNeill, "World History. A new perspective" by Clive Ponting, "The Great Divergence", by Kenneth Pomeranz, "The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1415-1980", by David Abernethy and "The History of Government", by S.E. Finer.
Rating: 5
Summary: A prequel of Braudel
Comment: Horden and Purcell have produced in The Corrupting Sea a comprehensive overview of the ancient Mediterranean world in the annaliste tradition of Braudel's Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l'epoque de Philippe II. A historian of medicine (Horden) and a classicist (Purcell), the authors develop the thesis that one must examine the microenvironments of the Mediterranean in order to understand the broad trends of the region's culture and history.
This work is a must read for everyone who is interested in the Mediterranean --classicists and medievalists in particular. Every public library in the world would be well advised to purchase a copy. In addition to the narrative that is replete with extensive commentary, the volume has a very useful set of bibliographical essays as well as the normal scholarly apparatus.
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Title: Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures) by Peter Robert Lamont Brown ISBN: 1584651466 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel ISBN: 0375703993 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds ISBN: 0520203089 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Evolution of the Late Antique World by Peter Garnsey, Caroline Humfress ISBN: 1903283000 Publisher: Orchard Academic Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Origins of the European Economy : Communications and Commerce AD 300-900 by Michael McCormick ISBN: 0521661021 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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