Aequora, pontos, jam, mare... Mare, uomini e merci nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Genova, 9-10 dicembre 2004)

En la mayor parte de la historia humana, los mares y los océanos han supuesto la principal forma de intercambio y comunicación de larga distancia entre pueblos, tanto para el comercio como para la expansión de ideas. Este libro traza la historia de la interacción humana a través de las principales masas de agua del planeta y analiza nuestra relación con los océanos remontándose a la época de los primeros viajeros. David Abulafia comienza con la primera comunidad marítima, los polinesios del Pacífico, que poseían intuitivas habilidades de navegación mucho antes de la invención...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Kosovo, tierra mítica para albaneses y serbios, territorio en disputa siempre, constituye uno de los conflictos más antiguos del continente europeo que sigue a la espera de una solución política. Desde hace siglos. Ahora, tras la independencia de esta antaño región serbia, la caja de Pandora de las reivindicaciones nacionalistas en toda Europa se ha abierto y el precedente de Kosovo, tal como se ha visto en la reciente crisis de Georgia, ya ha sido esgrimido por Rusia para defender las “independencias” de Abjasia y Osetia del Sur, entidades segregadas ilegalmente de Georgia y ya...