David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is a British historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
His published works include Frederick II, The Mediterranean in History, Italy in the central Middle Ages, The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus and The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean.
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David Abulafia's "The Great Sea" is the first complete history of the Mediterranean from the erection of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the recent reinvention of the Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination. Part of the argument of Abulafia's book is that the great port cities - Alexandria, Trieste and Salonika and many others - prospered in part because of their ability to allow many different people, religions and identities to co-exist within sometimes very confined spaces. He also brilliantly populates his history with identifiable individuals whose lives illustrate with great immediacy the wider developments he is describing. "The Great Sea" ranges stupendously across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political. Anyone who reads it will leave it with their understanding of those societies and their histories enormously enriched.
發表於2024-06-02
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有一個四分鍾看懂世界史的視頻,以時間為序,介紹各國、各民族的版圖更替。倘將視綫集中於地中海沿岸,頗有目不暇接之感。此地離人類文明的發源地不遠,又居微妙的聯結位置,有“你方唱罷我登場”的緊湊感,也不由讓人重新審視曆來人們對它的稱呼:“我們的海”(羅馬人)、“...
評分地中海很神奇。它連接瞭歐亞非三大洲,孕育瞭拉丁文明、愛琴海文明和阿拉伯文明,見證瞭三大宗教的産生與發展。作為人類航海活動最早的、最活躍的場所之一,它在地質構造上的形成時間之古老,超乎想象。 大衛‧阿布拉菲亞在他的著作《偉大的海:地中海人類史》裏說道:“在人...
評分文/趙客 如果詢問中國人,地中海在地球儀上的哪個地方,周圍環繞著哪些國傢,估計大多數人都迴答不上來。畢竟地中海區域於中國之間隔著韆山萬水的距離,而且在宗教、習俗、文化等方麵都相差甚遠。如果要瞭解地中海區域的曆史,首先就要熟悉相關的地理,因為地理條件在很大程度...
評分文/趙客 如果詢問中國人,地中海在地球儀上的哪個地方,周圍環繞著哪些國傢,估計大多數人都迴答不上來。畢竟地中海區域於中國之間隔著韆山萬水的距離,而且在宗教、習俗、文化等方麵都相差甚遠。如果要瞭解地中海區域的曆史,首先就要熟悉相關的地理,因為地理條件在很大程度...
評分圖書標籤: 曆史 地中海 海洋 歷史 經濟史 大航海時代 大曆史 外文
雜但還算有序。內容廣泛,需要有一定的曆史背景,作者很少會對一些曆史事件作齣闡述。
評分中級讀物
評分雜但還算有序。內容廣泛,需要有一定的曆史背景,作者很少會對一些曆史事件作齣闡述。
評分雜但還算有序。內容廣泛,需要有一定的曆史背景,作者很少會對一些曆史事件作齣闡述。
評分雜但還算有序。內容廣泛,需要有一定的曆史背景,作者很少會對一些曆史事件作齣闡述。
The Great Sea 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載