The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Atlantic Books,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Taking to the water
- The river and seas of ancient Egypt
- Bronze Age seafaring
- Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Mediterranean
- Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean
- Chasing the monsoons
- Continent and archipelagoes in the East
- The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean
- Northern Europe through the Viking Age
- The Silk Road of the seas
- China looks seaward
- The medieval Mediterranean and Europe
- The golden age of maritime Asia
- The world encompassed
- The birth of global trade
- State and sea in the age of European expansion
- Northern Europe ascendant
- "Annihilation of space and time"
- Naval power in steam and steel
- The maritime world since the 1950s.