The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

Informationen zum Autor Fernand Braudel was France's foremost post-war historian. He is best known for The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism and The Identity of France. This will be Braudel's final major posthumous publication. Sian Reynolds has translated all the great Braudel books published in English. She is recognised as one of the leading translators of French on either side of the Atlantic. Klappentext A general reader's history combining imaginative reconstruction and analogy with a lifetime's love and knowledge of the sea. Illus. Zusammenfassung Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciate the state of scholarship at the time of writing.

Product details

• Authors: Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds
• Assisted by: Sian Reynolds (Translation), Siân Reynolds (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9780140283556
• ISBN: 978-0-14-028355-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Africa / North, Mediterranean Sea, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory