The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
By Richard Lawrence Ollard, Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds (Translator)
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Book Description
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean tradeContinue
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nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010
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The Mediterranean: And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
I generally avoid abridgements (the last one I can remember reading was, oddly enough, Somervell's two volume abbreviation of Toynbee's A Study of History). But Ollard's abridgement of Braudel's The Mediterranean, on sale, was too hard to resist. The ... (read full critics)
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