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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Memory and the Mediterranean about I>Memory, Mediterranean</I>is, Byzantine with the genre: History, Ancient Civilizations
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conversations.value: the author's <I>Memory and the Mediterranean</I>is a panoramic and singular history, a comprehensive synthesis, of that region from pre-historic times to the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. the author's concerns are not the usual turning points such as battles and political upheaval. Instead, he focuses on regional and sub-regional vicissitudes (climate, topography, geologic cataclysms, the very currents of the sea itself) and their legacies, especially commerce, to trace the reasons behind the risings and falls of the greater Mediterranean's scores of ancient cultures. What, for example, were the ramifications of Egypt's lack of forests? How did the discovery of bitumen and the development of concrete affect, respectively, the Phoenicians and the Romans? <I>Memory and the Mediterranean</I>is complex and demanding but in the end, rewarding. Its point of view is at once Olympian, humble, and richly commonsensical. <I>--H. O'Billovitch</I>
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conversations.value: O'Billovitch</I>. <I>--H. Its point of view is at once Olympian, humble, and richly commonsensical. What, for example, were the ramifications of Egypt's lack of forests? How did the discovery of bitumen and the development of concrete affect, respectively, the Phoenicians and the Romans? <I>Memory and the Mediterranean</I>is complex and demanding but in the end, rewarding. Instead, he focuses on regional and sub-regional vicissitudes (climate, topography, geologic cataclysms, the very currents of the sea itself) and their legacies, especially commerce, to trace the reasons behind the risings and falls of the greater Mediterranean's scores of ancient cultures. the author's concerns are not the usual turning points such as battles and political upheaval.the author's <I>Memory and the Mediterranean</I>is a panoramic and singular history, a comprehensive synthesis, of that region from pre-historic times to the beginning of the Byzantine Empire