NOTE: This book is heavy, weighing 890 grams / 1 lb., 15.4 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment. The author was a leading historian in the Annales School. Translated from the French La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen a l'époque de Philippe II by Sian Reynolds, this history is a significant book in historiography as it analyses its subject matter less from a concern for specific events and persons and more from the perspective of geography and social and economic structures. 642+ i pages plus numerous illustrations, plates and figures and a two page geographical map of the Mediterranean as frontispiece. The Binding is full tangerine colored cloth with gilt title, etc., to spine and all corners square and sharp. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind other than prior owner's name and date (4 February 1976) on front endpaper. Book Club Edition (faint deboss on lower rear board). Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1972.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |