Описание: The first volume to map the interregional political, economic and cultural networks in which Egypt functioned as it was transformed from a Graeco-Roman to an Arabic-Islamic region. Brings together a wide range of disciplines, serving historians of late antiquity and Islam, archaeologists and papyrologists.
The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of transformation in agricultural technologies and administration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model farms while government officials and technocratic elites pursued new land tenure, credit-lending, and tax collection policies to maximize revenue. These policies transformed rural communities and environments and were central to projects of reform and colonial control—as well as to resistance of that control.
States of Cultivation examines the processes and effects of agrarian transformation over more than a century as Ottoman, Syrian, Lebanese, and French officials grappled with these new technologies, albeit with different end goals. Elizabeth Williams investigates the increasingly fragmented natures produced by these contrasting priorities and the results of their intersection with regional environmental limits. Not only did post–World War I policies realign the economic space of the mandate states, but they shaped an agricultural legacy that continued to impact Syria and Lebanon post-independence. With this book, Williams offers the first comprehensive account of the shared technocratic ideals that animated these policies and the divergent imperial goals that not only reshaped the region's agrarian institutions, but produced representations of the region with repercussions well beyond the mandate's end.
Автор: Varlik Название: Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World ISBN: 1107013380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107013384 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers` accounts, as well as recent scientific research, this book is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death and in the following centuries.
Автор: Takayama Название: Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages ISBN: 1138496197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138496194 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, one of the most fascinating but neglected kingdoms in the medieval world.
Автор: Sinclair, Thomas Название: Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages ISBN: 075466516X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754665168 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 25265.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods was compiled. A picture is drawn of the urban history of each major city, including Sivas, Erzurum and Tabriz itself, and of other towns along the route.
Автор: Constable, Olivia Remie Название: Housing the stranger in the mediterranean world ISBN: 0521109760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521109765 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Greek pandocheion, the Arabic funduq, and Latin fondaco were ubiquitous institutions in the Mediterranean sphere that operated as hostelries for travellers and evolved into centres of trade between Muslim and Christian regions. Professor Constable traces their complex evolution across space and culture from late antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Автор: O`Hara Vincent P. Название: Struggle for the Middle Sea ISBN: 1591141966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591141969 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Mediterranean Sea was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. As the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet, more major naval actions were fought in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic or Pacific. Despite its importance, remarkably little has been written about the subject, and what exists is largely one-sided and outdated. This fresh study of the naval war in the Mediterranean analyses the actions and performances of the five major navies—British, Italian, French, German, and American—during the entire five-year campaign and objectively examines the national imperatives that drove each nation’s maritime strategy.Struggle for the Middle Sea sidesteps the myths that haunt this campaign, such as Great Britain enjoying a moral advantage over Italy, or the French being Germany’s puppet, or the North African campaign significantly contributing to the eventual Allied victory. The book documents how the British Royal Navy, despite brilliant victories, was bled white in a campaign with questionable strategic goals; how Italy followed its own coherent naval strategy, much to the frustration of its German ally; and how the Marine Nationale was the strength of the independent French state and how it fought the Allies—and rejected the Axis—to maintain that independence.Most World War II histories tell the story of the Mediterranean War from a limited national point of view. Other works also end the story in 1943. Struggle for the Middle Sea provides a complete history of the entire campaign from all perspectives and covers Germany’s largely unknown—and remarkably successful—struggle to employ sea power in the Mediterranean after the Italian armistice.The book’s perspective and depth of detail is unmatched by other works, and its fresh viewpoints, supported by extensive research in Italian and French sources, are certain to provoke controversy. Its lessons about coastal warfare, the use of the sea, and the difficulty of sea denial have particular application today.
Описание: This book focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic, by analysing the evidence of local production, trade and consumption within a Mediterranean perspective. It is a work for archaeologists and ancient historians.
Описание: A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, which re-examines the European influence over the urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender and national identity, providing an alternative view of the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe.
Описание: Examines the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Автор: Hillgarth, J.N. Название: Spain and the Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages ISBN: 0860789128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780860789123 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 12554.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain.
In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted may be put to use in a new context, and also to question a number of current assumptions as to the nature of Spanish history.
Автор: Fromherz, Allen James (gerogia State University) Название: Near west ISBN: 0748642943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748642946 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book tells stories of interaction, conflict and common exchange between Berbers, Arabs, Latins, Muslims, Christians and Jews in North Africa and Latin Europe. Using individual biographies, this book argues that North Africa was, in fact, an integral part of western history.
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