| Author/Contributor(s): | Lewis, Archibald R |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 10/22/1988 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The reader will find here useful information and much food for thought; a book of such a broad scope is rare and has much to recommend it. --Speculum
. . . encyclopedic . . . there is no book quite like this one. --Choice
. . . a colorful canvas depicting the torrential movements of Eurasian warriors and merchants on ship-boards and horseback between Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific coasts, between streams of accumulated goods and tensions, religious fervor and insatiable greed . . . --Ural-Altaic Yearbook
A healthy antidote to the parochialism that characterizes so much of the run-of-the-mill output of medieval history . . . --American Historical Review
Emphasizing geographical, maritime, institutional, and economic factors, Lewis presents a wide-ranging story of the complex rise and fall of civilizations and explores new conceptual frontiers in the study of world history.