![]() ![]() A Human History of the Mediterranean, the use of the singular in ‘Human History’ is as significant as that of the plural in the scheme of classification of enumerated ‘Mediterraneans’ that it adopts. In David Abulafia’s magisterial The Great Sea. In the veritable renaissance that the study of the enclosed sea in all its different dimensions has enjoyed over the past few decades, the exportation of an ‘academic’ Mediterranean to a wider audience around the globe must be one of the hallmarks of the globalization of the subject, making it accessible enough to stimulate a scholarly search for parallel stories to the one that the old sea has to tell us. ![]() The latest addition to the growing library of books on Mediterranean history is one of the most outstanding. ![]() By Charles Dalli, lecturer in History, University of Malta ![]()
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