Introduction: The Conversion of the Mediterranean into a World Centre, Its Crises and the Formation of the Late Mediaeval Commercial Empires

Jordi Catalan Vidal ()
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Jordi Catalan Vidal: University of Barcelona

Chapter Chapter 1 in Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World, 2023, pp 1-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since prehistory, men and innovationsinnovations had flowed from East to West for centuries along the Mediterranean and had transformed its economies and societies. Later commercial city-statescity-state emerged on the shores of the Inner Sea and reinforced this process favoured by the low sea transporttransport costs. Several of them became maritime empires or thalassocraciesthalassocracy(ies).

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24502-2_1

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