![]() ![]() ![]() My theme is the process by which the Mediterranean became in varying degrees integrated into a single commercial, cultural and even (under the Romans) political zone, and how these periods of integration ended with sometimes violent disintegration, whether through warfare or plague. This book is a history of the Mediterranean Sea, rather than a history of the lands around it more particularly, it is a history of the people who crossed the sea and lived close by its shores in ports and on islands. ‘Mediterranean history’ can mean many things. ![]()
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