Conventional scholarship on the Mediterranean portrays the Inner
Sea as a timeless entity with unchanging ecological and agrarian
features. But, Faruk Tabak argues, some of the "traditional" and
"olden" characteristics that we attribute to it today are actually
products of relatively recent developments. Locating the shifting
fortunes of Mediterranean city-states and empires in patterns of
long-term economic and ecological change, this study shows how the
quintessential properties of the basin -- the trinity of cereals,
tree crops, and small livestock -- were reestablished as the
Mediterranean's importance in global commerce, agriculture, and
politics waned.
Tabak narrates this history not from the vantage point of
colossal empires, but from that of the mercantile republics that
played a pivotal role as empire-building city-states. His unique
juxtaposition of analyses of world economic developments that
flowed from the decline of these city-states and the ecological
change associated with the Little Ice Age depicts large-scale,
long-term social change. Integrating the story of the western and
eastern Mediterranean -- from Genoa and the Habsburg empire to
Venice and the Ottoman and Byzantine empires -- Tabak unveils the
complex process of devolution and regeneration that brought about
the eclipse of the Mediterranean.
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