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This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes vindicating Braudel, sometimes proving him wrong. Above all the book offers us the chance to situate Braudel's mediterranean, born of a lifetime's love and knowledge, more clearly in the climates of the sea's history.
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Fernand Braudel was France's foremost post-war historian. He is best known for The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II, Civilization and Capitalism and The Identity of France. This will be Braudel's final major posthumous publication.
Sian Reynolds has translated all the great Braudel books published in English. She is recognised as one of the leading translators of French on either side of the Atlantic.
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The best witness to the Mediterranean's age-old past is the sea itself. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The best witness to the Mediterranean's age-old past is the sea itself. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Braudel is regarded as one of the giants of history writing of recent times, having developed the notion of 'longue duree', the aeons-long span of history that provides the base for all the transitory activities we normally take for history. Leader of the Annales school of historiography, he is especially famous for his work on the Mediterranean area in the reign of Philip II.
This book, in contrast, applies the approach to the ancient world but, unsurprisingly, actually starts with the Palaeolithic. The book, written about 1970, was not published in Braudel's lifetime because the publisher (and instigator) died. It finally appeared in 1998. It contains a huge amount of fascinating detail that is well-organised and accompanied by perceptive and telling generalisations. If you want something a bit different from straight narrative history, then read this.
This book, in contrast, applies the approach to the ancient world but, unsurprisingly, actually starts with the Palaeolithic. The book, written about 1970, was not published in Braudel's lifetime because the publisher (and instigator) died. It finally appeared in 1998. It contains a huge amount of fascinating detail that is well-organised and accompanied by perceptive and telling generalisations. If you want something a bit different from straight narrative history, then read this.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Since long regarded as the greatest historian of the 20th Century, and the autor of some truly dazzling works, that still now stand out as the greatest historical works ever written. Books like The Mediterranean should be an example to us all and should be the way that we all should write history.
Braudel is truly one of the few that can stand out with giants as Gibbon, for example.
In this work, he's doing what he already did before in The Mediterranean. He describes the evolution of civilisations in the ancient times. However, he stretches a much longer time span, but the actual book does not contain more than 350 pages. This is really a shortcomming of the book, as it leaves you begging for more, more depth, details and maps. This book has alot of potential and could have been the definitive work on this era. The book could have been a great explenation on why ancient civilisations could rise in that erea and from a geological point of view there is alot more to be said about this. The books makes you think about so much, but does provide so less answers. It moves on relatively fast towards the beginning of civilisations and then gives it's fair amount of attention to all the civilisations that we all know so we'll. In this the book does a really excelent job and gives you indeed alot to think about. I really changed my mind in the decline of Rome for example. But a more tight analysis between the landscape, geology, climate and the history of the Mediterranean civilisations is needed and possily the key to finally understand why they fell in thje first place.
The book is written in the usual beautifull Braulllian Proze, and even while it creates more questions than it answers, along time lones one can learn a great deal and then not only about the history itself, but also about the way BNrausel looked at history, and the way he looked at life itself. He makes a few very bold statements in this.
All in all extremely recomanded (If you like Braudel ofcourse).
Braudel is truly one of the few that can stand out with giants as Gibbon, for example.
In this work, he's doing what he already did before in The Mediterranean. He describes the evolution of civilisations in the ancient times. However, he stretches a much longer time span, but the actual book does not contain more than 350 pages. This is really a shortcomming of the book, as it leaves you begging for more, more depth, details and maps. This book has alot of potential and could have been the definitive work on this era. The book could have been a great explenation on why ancient civilisations could rise in that erea and from a geological point of view there is alot more to be said about this. The books makes you think about so much, but does provide so less answers. It moves on relatively fast towards the beginning of civilisations and then gives it's fair amount of attention to all the civilisations that we all know so we'll. In this the book does a really excelent job and gives you indeed alot to think about. I really changed my mind in the decline of Rome for example. But a more tight analysis between the landscape, geology, climate and the history of the Mediterranean civilisations is needed and possily the key to finally understand why they fell in thje first place.
The book is written in the usual beautifull Braulllian Proze, and even while it creates more questions than it answers, along time lones one can learn a great deal and then not only about the history itself, but also about the way BNrausel looked at history, and the way he looked at life itself. He makes a few very bold statements in this.
All in all extremely recomanded (If you like Braudel ofcourse).
Format:Paperback
Being a lover of Ancient History, the Title told me straight away what I was to read. Braudel's Book leans towards popular History and has a great deal of theory, archaeological overviews and Geological background which ties in with climatic conditions in the sea throughout history, which leaves the reader looking to continue the quest for the fountain of knowledge.
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