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Introduction: The Conversion of the Mediterranean into a World Centre, Its Crises and the Formation of the Late Mediaeval Commercial Empires

In: Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World

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  • Jordi Catalan Vidal

    (University of Barcelona)

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Since prehistory, men and innovationsinnovations had flowed from East to West for centuries along the Mediterranean and had transformed its economies and societies. Later commercial city-statescity-state emerged on the shores of the Inner Sea and reinforced this process favoured by the low sea transporttransport costs. Several of them became maritime empires or thalassocraciesthalassocracy(ies).

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  • Jordi Catalan Vidal, 2023. "Introduction: The Conversion of the Mediterranean into a World Centre, Its Crises and the Formation of the Late Mediaeval Commercial Empires," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Jordi Catalan Vidal (ed.), Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World, chapter 0, pages 1-62, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-24502-2_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24502-2_1
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