The Corrupting Sea A Study of Mediterranean

The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.

Peregrine Horden is Welcome Trust Research Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Nicholas Purcell is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, St John's College, Oxford. They began studying Mediterranean history when both were Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.

List of Maps

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Note on References

x

Abbreviations

xi

Introduction

1

(6)

Part One: `Frogs round a Pond': Ideas of the Mediterranean

7

(44)

A Geographical Expression

9

(17)

A Historian's Mediterranean

26

(25)

Part Two: `Short Distances and Definite Places': Mediterranean Microecologies

51

(122)

Four Definite Places

53

(36)

Ecology and the Larger Settlement

89

(34)

Connectivity

123

(50)

Part Three: Revolution and Catastrophe

173

(228)

Imperatives of Survival: Diversify, Store, Redistribute

175

(56)

Technology and Agrarian Change

231

(67)

Mediterranean Catastrophes

298

(44)

Mobility of Goods and People

342

(59)

Part Four: The Geography of Religion

401

(60)

`Territories of Grace'

403

(58)

Part Five: `Museums of Man'? The Uses of Social Anthropology

461

(69)

`Mists of Time': Anthropology and Continuity

463

(22)

`I Also Have A Moustache': Anthropology and Mediterranean Unity

485

(45)

Bibliographical Essays

530

(112)

Consolidated Bibliography

642

(95)

Index

737

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The Corrupting Sea A Study of Mediterranean History

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