The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean — The Network Beneath History
What if the Mediterranean was less a boundary between civilizations than the network that allowed them to exist?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia as its lens, this episode investigates the ports, islands, merchants, migrants, navies, and institutions that connected Mediterranean societies across thousands of years.
Abulafia organizes this history around five periods of integration and disintegration. His emphasis is not simply on the empires surrounding the sea, but on…
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