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CONTENTS
List of Maps xv
List of Illustrations xvii
List of Tables xviii
List of Abbreviations xix
Notes on Contributors xxi
1. The Mediterranean and Ancient History 1
W. V. Harris
1. Introduction. 1
2. Towards a history of the Mediterranean,
3500 bc–ad 1000. 3
3. Unity? 20
4. ‘Ruralizing’ ancient history. 29
5. Categories, dynamic processes, causation, and avoiding
conclusions. 34
6. Mediterraneanism and ancient history:
in favour of a wider ethnography. 38
THE BIG CANVAS
2. Practical Mediterraneanism: Excuses for Everything,
from Epistemology to Eating 45
Michael Herzfeld
1. On the ontological persistence of a shrinking sea. 45
2. Comparing the comparisons: power, authority,
and classification. 46
3. Stereotypical permutations of a civilizational ideal. 48
4. Strategies of self-stereotyping. 52
5. Mediterraneanism and the politics of humiliation. 59