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Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean brings together a multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines the deep connections that bound together the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib in the medieval and early modern periods. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends. Contributors are Adam Gaiser, Linda G. Jones, Hussein Fancy, S.J. Pearce, David Coleman, and Marya T. Green-Mercado.

Acculturation --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History. --- Iberian Peninsula --- Africa, North --- Gibraltar, Strait of --- Détroit de Gibraltar --- Estrecho de Gibraltar --- Hercules, Strait of --- Strait of Gibraltar --- Strait of Hercules --- Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) --- Hispánica, Península --- Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) --- Ibérica, Península --- Península Hispánica --- Península Ibérica --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Relations --- Civilization. --- Culture contact (Acculturation)