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The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550–1870: A Geohistorical Approach


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Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and "olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting fortunes of Mediterranean city-states and empires in patterns of long-term economic and ecological change, this study shows how the quintessential properties of the basin-the trinity of cereals, tree crops, and small livestock-were reestablished as the Mediterranean's importance in global commerce, agriculture, and politics waned. Tabak narrates this history not from the vantage point of colossal empires, but from that of the mercantile republics that played a pivotal role as empire-building city-states. His unique juxtaposition of analyses of world economic developments that flowed from the decline of these city-states and the ecological change associated with the Little Ice Age depicts large-scale, long-term social change. Integrating the story of the western and eastern Mediterranean-from Genoa and the Habsburg empire to Venice and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires-Tabak unveils the complex process of devolution and regeneration that brought about the eclipse of the Mediterranean.

Table of Contents:
Acknowlegments Introduction: Unrelieved Weight of Wealth in the Inner Sea Part I: Of Cities of Saints and Rich Trades 1. Empires and Empire-Building City-States 2. City-States and the Inner Sea 3. Eclipse of the City-States and the Resurfacing of the Mediterranean Part II: Of Malarial Plains and Arboreal Hills 4. Reversal in the Fortunes of the Plains 5. New World of the Hills Conclusion: The Mediterranean between the Leek-Green Sea and the Green Sea Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Faruk Tabak (1954-2008) was Ertegun Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Studies at Georgetown University.

Review :
Insightful, incisive, and fascinating... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice This extremely ambitious volume attempts to provide a comprehensive portrait of the transformation of the Mediterranean's economy during its traditionally acknowledged decline. -- Maria Fusaro International Journal of Maritime History This book is worthy of study for anyone interested in what preceded the modern period in the mediterranean -- Raymond C. Ewing Mediterranean Quarterly An impressive feat of scholarship and a new milestone in the ongoing historiography and debate about the interconnected histories of the lands around the Mediterranean basin. -- Adam Franklin-Lyons Sixteenth Century Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801887208
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 771 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801887208
  • Publisher Date: 07 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: A Geohistorical Approach
  • Width: 156 mm


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