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The Corrupting Sea

by Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell · 2000 · 761 pages

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The Corrupting Seais a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.

Subject
history
Themes
archaeologyhistory
Setting
ancient historymediterranean
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 761 pages

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