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Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 Paperback - 1992

by John H. Pryor


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When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this study, the technological limitations of maritime traffic are considered in conjunction with the peculiar geographical conditions within which it operated, and which led to the establishment of major sea lanes on trunk routes along which traffic could move safely, efficiently, and economically. These trunk routes remained virtually unchanged from antiquity to the sixteenth century, and eventually constituted economic and strategic maritime frontiers between civilisations. At the same time, the technological limitations of the oared galley meant that coasts and islands along the trunk routes had also to be held, a necessity which favoured geographically the Christian West over the world of Byzantium and Islam.

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  • Title Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571
  • Author John H. Pryor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Paperback Ed
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, First Paperback Edition
  • Date 1992-05-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521428927 / 0521428920
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 6.22 x 0.65 in (21.95 x 15.80 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mediterranean
  • Library of Congress subjects Mediterranean Region - History, Naval, Navigation - Mediterranean Region - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92250486
  • Dewey Decimal Code 387.509
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