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This history of the Mediterranean, written by 17 historians from all the countries around its shores, is a unique one. An intersection of national mentalities within a global approach to history, it offers an unprecedented vision of a region that… Read more  lies at the heart of so many of today’s conflicts.
In five chapters, taking us from prehistory to the contemporary world, the authors define the consecutive stages of construction of a Mediterranean identity. How was a specific entity forged, around the Mediterranean, throughout the centuries? What common culture did the many conflicts between zones and civilisations engender? The fruit of research by the most renowned specialists, Mediterranean remains accessible to a wide readership and responds to a widespread need: it provides the requisites for deeper comprehension and the bases of a dialogue that reaches beyond the logic of memory.
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