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David Abulafia
The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean
Hay Festival 2012,
For more than 3,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the C19th, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history.