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Sundrenched Gardens : the Mediterranean Style
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ISBN: 0810932903 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Abrams

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Gardening the Mediterranean Way : Practical Solutions for Summer-dry Climates
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ISBN: 0500511837 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson

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Greek colonisation : an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas
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ISBN: 1282602071 9786612602078 904744244X 9789047442448 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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The 3-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. In this colonial world Greek and local societies met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. The work is dedicated to the late Prof. A.J. Graham. This second volume contains chapters on Central Greece on the eve of the colonisation movement, foundation stories, colonisation in the Classical period, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, Libya and Cyprus.

Rethinking the Mediterranean
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ISBN: 1280756683 9786610756681 0191555991 0191548863 1423788672 9780191555992 9781423788676 9780199265459 0199265453 6610756686 9781280756689 9780191548864 1383040745 0199207720 9780199207725 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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In this collection of essays, an international group of renowned scholars attempt to establish the theoretical basis for studying the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it. In so doing they range far afield to other Mediterraneans, real and imaginary, as distant as Brazil and Japan. Their work is an essential tool for understanding the Mediterranean, pre-modern and modern alike. It speaks to ancient and medieval historians, to archaeologists, anthropologists and all historians with environmental interests, and not least to classicists.

The Nature of Mediterranean Europe : an Ecological History
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ISBN: 0300100558 9780300100556 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven Yale

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Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant
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Year: 2006 Publisher: London : Council for British Research in the Levant.

Ecological Landscape Design & Planning : the Mediterranean Context
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ISBN: 0419232508 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Spon

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Based on both research and practical experience, the authors of the book offer an alternative methodogical approach to landscape design and planning. The book focuses on issues arising in the Mediterranean region but the principles of the approach can be used as an appropriate theoretical foundation for ecological design and planning elsewhere leading to better sustainable practice and development.


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Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the Islamic imagination
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ISBN: 9789004346192 9004346198 9789004347380 9004347380 Year: 2018 Volume: 119 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state’s bureaucrats of the tenth century C.E. located mainly in the central Islamic lands, to the later men of the field, specifically the sea captains from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries C.E. located in the western Islamic lands. A narrative has emerged from this investigation in which the metamorphosis of the identity of the author or mapmaker seemed to be changing with the rest of the elements that constitute the identity of a map: its reader or viewer, its style and structure, and its textual content.


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New themes, new styles in the eastern Mediterranean : Christian, Jewish, and Islamic encounters, 5th-8th centuries
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ISBN: 9789042934450 904293445X Year: 2017 Volume: 16 Publisher: Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters,

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"Building on and echoing Averil Cameron's series of articles entitled New Themes, New Styles, the contributors to this volume wished to revisit the phenomenon of enhanced, renewed, or invented, literary and artistic modes of expression in the period after the great authorities of the patristic age until early Islamic times. In the period under investigation, that is the fifth to the eighth centuries, scholars may point to a transformation of artistic expressions in a number of ways. One such example is a marked increase in reductionist activity on the one hand, and the disappearance of classicising historiography on the other. In this volume, a number of experts from a variety of disciplines - studies in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Arabic studies, Jewish studies, Syriac studies, and Art History - have come together to form a unique platform where the dynamic nature of Late Antique societies is portrayed against the background of the advent of Islam. Some rich encounters are revealed."--

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