List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
Peregrine Horden
Part i Climate and Vegetation 9
1 The Mediterranean Climate 11
Fredric Cheyette
2 The Vegetative Mediterranean 26
Paolo Squatriti
Part ii turning Points and Phases 43
3 Mediterranean “Prehistory” 45
Cyprian Broodbank
4 The Ancient Mediterranean 59
Nicholas Purcell
5 The Medieval Mediterranean 77
Dominique Valérian
6 The Early Modern Mediterranean 91
Molly Greene
7 Mediterranean Modernity? 107
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
8 Po-Mo Med 122
Michael Herzfeld
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