Geography, Technology, And War: Studies In The Maritime History Of The Mediterranean, 649-1571

 ( Book Product ) 

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

• Geography, Technology, And War: Studies In The Maritime History Of The Mediterranean, 649-1571 available on November 13 2015 from Indigo for 62.74
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521428927 ξ1 registered November 13 2015
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978052142892
  

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.

^ Geography, Technology, And War: Studies In The Maritime History Of The Mediterranean, 649-1571 Indigo. ISBN 9780521428927 (revised Nov 2015)