The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 29.10.2013 г. - 784 страници A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. |
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The River and Seas of Ancient Egypt | 36 |
Bronze Age Seafaring | 57 |
Phoenicians Greeks and the Mediterranean | 79 |
Carthage Rome and the Mediterranean | 107 |
Chasing the Monsoons | 137 |
Continent and Archipelagoes in the East | 167 |
The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean | 198 |
The Medieval Mediterranean and Europe | 316 |
The Golden Age of Maritime Asia | 346 |
The World Encompassed | 376 |
The Birth of Global Trade | 406 |
State and Sea in the Age of European Expansion | 440 |
Northern Europe Ascendant | 473 |
Annihilation of Space and Time | 508 |
Naval Power in Steam and Steel | 546 |
Northern Europe Through the Viking | 229 |
The Silk Road of the Seas | 262 |
China Looks Seaward | 291 |
The Maritime World Since the 1950s | 582 |
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