Rethinking the Mediterranean

Contents......Page 10
List of Maps......Page 16
List of Illustrations......Page 18
List of Tables......Page 19
List of Abbreviations......Page 20
Notes on Contributors......Page 22
1. Introduction......Page 28
2. Towards a history of the Mediterranean, 3500 BC–AD 1000......Page 30
3. Unity?......Page 47
4. ‘Ruralizing’ ancient history......Page 56
5. Categories, dynamic processes, causation, and avoiding conclusions......Page 61
6. Mediterraneanism and ancient history: in favour of a wider ethnography......Page 65
THE BIG CANVAS......Page 70
1. On the ontological persistence of a shrinking sea......Page 72
2. Comparing the comparisons: power, authority, and classification......Page 73
3. Stereotypical permutations of a civilizational ideal......Page 75
4. Strategies of self-stereotyping......Page 79
5. Mediterraneanism and the politics of humiliation......Page 86
1. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Sea......Page 91
2. The Classic Mediterranean and its sub-Mediterraneans......Page 94
3. Neighbouring Mediterraneans: the Saharan Mediterranean Desert......Page 102
4. The Mediterranean of the North......Page 103
5. The Mediterranean Atlantic......Page 107
6. A trans-oceanic Mediterranean: the Caribbean......Page 109
7. The Japanese Mediterranean......Page 112
8. The Indian Ocean as a Braudelian problem......Page 117
9. Comparative Mediterraneans......Page 118
4. Ecology and Beyond: The Mediterranean Paradigm......Page 121
1. One or several? Zones and unity in the ancient Mediterranean......Page 122
2. Forms of connectivity......Page 131
3. Mediterranean connectivity: inside and outside......Page 135
ANGLES OF VISION......Page 142
1. Introduction......Page 144
2. The states of the eastern Mediterranean world......Page 146
3. Political evolution in the second half of the second millennium BC......Page 150
4. Social structure......Page 155
5. War and diplomacy......Page 158
6. Cultural and mercantile interactions......Page 161
7. An eastern Mediterranean system......Page 164
1. Mediterranean rituals......Page 168
2. From meanings to functions......Page 170
3. Rituals and cultural transfer......Page 173
4. The elusiveness of rituals......Page 176
5. Artificial revivals......Page 179
6. Misleading analogies: the Daidala of Plataia and its modern exegetes......Page 182
7. Rituals and the physical environment......Page 187
8. The role of religious idiosyncrasies......Page 189
9. The manifold character of ritual transfer......Page 191
10. Contextualizing Mediterranean rituals......Page 193
7. The East–West Orientation of Mediterranean Studies and the Meaning of North and South in Antiquity......Page 194
1. Introduction......Page 206
2. Mobility and fixity......Page 208
3. Travel as therapy......Page 213
4. Regimen for travellers......Page 217
5. Free-standing regimens......Page 222
1. On the usefulness of the history of taxation......Page 227
2. Taxation and mobility......Page 230
3. Three phases of Mediterranean evidence......Page 233
4. Managing interdependence: the nature of the network......Page 242
5. Progressive regression?......Page 247
6. Athens and Rome: Mediterranean and other hegemonies......Page 249
7. The edges of the system: conclusion......Page 255
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE......Page 260
1. Introduction......Page 262
2. Constructing the scientific traveller-observer......Page 263
3. The Mediterranean Sea and Enlightenment science......Page 269
4. The voyage philosophique in the Aegean Sea......Page 280
5. Conclusion: Chabert and Choiseul-Gouffier......Page 290
11. The Mirage of Greek Continuity: On the Uses and Abuses of Analogy in Some Travel Narratives from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Century......Page 295
1. The first wave......Page 296
2. Spon and Wheler and their successors......Page 301
3. The Romantic sensibility......Page 314
4. Conclusion......Page 317
12. Mediterranean Reception in the Americas......Page 321
1. The Amazon......Page 324
2. Bernardo Ramos: myth and epigraphy......Page 328
3. Epilogue......Page 338
1. Introduction......Page 341
2. Chronological patterning......Page 343
3. Where, who, and in whose language?......Page 349
4. A good cover......Page 351
5. Mission and agenda......Page 353
6. Covering the Mediterranean......Page 360
LAST WORDS......Page 364
14. Egypt and the Concept of the Mediterranean......Page 366
1. Quid eis cum pelago? The response by discipline......Page 375
2. Les auteurs ne se noient jamais dans leur Méditerraneé: theory and scope......Page 382
3. Doughnuts in cyberspace: finding the metaphor......Page 386
4. Falsifiability......Page 388
5. Monstrous squid or calamari?......Page 394
6. Doing without towns......Page 396
7. Managing monotheisms......Page 398
8. Render unto Caesar: in quest of narrative......Page 399
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