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Author Fox, Robert, 1945-

Title The inner sea : the Mediterranean and its people / Robert Fox.

Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  909.09822 F833i 1993    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First American edition.
Description xiii, 575 pages : maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Contents Preface -- A Note of Thanks -- Prologue -- The Sea and Its People -- Map -- the Mediterranean: The Western Basin -- The Northern Shores. I. Spain. i. Andalusia: Mediterranean Overture. ii. Toledo: The Old Mediterranean Renaissance. iii. Barcelona: Heart of a Nation. iv. The Moon Travellers of Majorca. 2. France. i. Languedoc: Cathars and Cultivators. ii. Marseille. iii. Corsica: Granite Exile. 3. Italy. i. Order in Disorder. ii. Cities of the North: Milan, Genoa, Venice. iii. Roman Politics. iv. A Civilisation Apart: Naples. v. The Mezzogiorno -- the South. vi. South of the South: Calabria. vii. Sicily: A Family Matter. viii. Cicero's Bitter Honey: Sardinia -- Map: The Eastern Basin. 4. The Arm of the Adriatic. i. The Balkan Hinge: The Veneto and Trieste. ii. The Southern Slavs Divide: The Break-up of Yugoslavia. iii. Albania: A Law Unto Itself. 5. Greece. i. Who Are the Greeks? ii. Athens. iii. Mountains and the North: Metsovo, Salonika, Athos. iv. Islands: Cephalonia and Crete.
6. Turkey: Crossroads to Asia. i. Istanbul and the New Turkey. ii. Ataturk's Citadel, and the March to the Sea: Ankara, Izmir and the Coast. 7. Cyprus. i. Turkish Cypriots. ii. Greek Cypriots -- Map: The Mediterranean -- The Southern Shores. 8. A Month in the Maghreb. i. Morocco. ii. Agony and Introversion: Algeria. iii. In the Shadow of Hannibal: Tunisia. 9. Libya: Qaddafi's Mixed Metaphor. 10. Maltese Crossroads -- Map: The East, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt -- The Levant. II. Egyptian Complex. i. Scratching the Hieroglyph. ii. Losing Alexandria. iii. Ismailia and the Canal. iv. Fellahin: Farming and Fertility. v. Cairo. 12. The Crescent and the Mountain: Syria and Lebanon. i. Syria. ii. Unhistoric Journey. iii. Human Mosaic: Lebanon. 13. Promise and Predicament: Israel and Palestine. i. The Grapes of Hebron. ii. The Land of Israel. iii. Intifada. iv. Jerusalem. 14. The Mediterranean Challenge: An Open Conclusion.
Summary Known to the early cartographers as the Inner Sea, the Mediterranean is emerging anew today, its tastes and styles now almost universal. But even as its influence - in the form of everything from politics to cookery, art, design and organized crime - continues to grow throughout the rest of the world, the sea and its people are now witnessing the most dramatic changes in their history. Who are the new Mediterraneans? How do they see themselves and their future, and how will their world change ours?
Robert Fox explores these questions in a journey to every country bordering the Inner Sea and the great islands scattered across its waters. In the past five years, he has seen the mountains of Morocco, the deserts of Syria, the sylvan wasteland of Albania, the monasteries of Athos, the slums of Naples, Gaza in riot, Beirut in civil war, Cairo in celebration. He presents each people and country - from France to Libya, from Greece to Malta, from Italy to Israel, and everyone along the way - as they see themselves, and he shares the lives and thoughts of poets and politicians, popes and peasants, bishops, brigands and barons.
Subject Fox, Robert, 1945- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.
Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel.
Fox, Robert, 1945- (OCoLC)fst00115705
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Mediterranean Region. (OCoLC)fst01239752
ISBN 0394574524
9780394574523
0039457452

 
    
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