This book focuses on the Mediterranean world of 400 years ago, but the perspective stretches back to the world of Homer, and the foreground reaches up to the 20th century. In considering the Mediterranean's history it is not treaties, wars and dynastic marriages that claim the author's attention, but such questions as how long it took for a cargo ship to work its way from Alicante to Alexandria, how much it cost to send a special courier from Madrid to Paris, how people lived and what they lived on and what happened in ...
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This book focuses on the Mediterranean world of 400 years ago, but the perspective stretches back to the world of Homer, and the foreground reaches up to the 20th century. In considering the Mediterranean's history it is not treaties, wars and dynastic marriages that claim the author's attention, but such questions as how long it took for a cargo ship to work its way from Alicante to Alexandria, how much it cost to send a special courier from Madrid to Paris, how people lived and what they lived on and what happened in cities like Venice, Naples or Constantinople when plague, famine or war intensified an already furious struggle for existence.
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Good in good dust jacket. VOLUMES 1 AND 2. Dust jackets have chipping, scuffing, and tears. Dedicated to previous owner. Pages are toned. Text is clean. Text in English, French. Audience: General/trade.1375 pages total.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x5x1; Clean, unmarked, tight pages. The dust jacket has some wear and bumping around the top edge. The front flap of the dust jacket has a crease. The top edges of the dust jacket flaps are slightly yellowed.
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