
Per fortuna c'è chi rimette le cose in prospettiva: Barry Cunliffe, che dopo il suo Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and its Peoples del 2001 adesso propone questo seguto ideale: Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000. E The New Republic ne pensa un gran bene.
Money Quote: Perspective is something that readers of Barry Cunliffe have come to expect. In Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and its Peoples, which appeared in 2001, and now in its sequel, he has chosen to study Europe's oceanic destiny. Europe was, and is, the land between the oceans. Its deeply convoluted coasts and island fragments make for a total of 37,000 kilometers of interface between land and sea--equivalent to the world's circumference. It was "no accident" that Europe's first civilization arose in the Aegean Sea (on Crete), where the ratio of coast to land was at its greatest. The seashore is also where Europe came from--whence Europa was kidnapped to Crete, "a reminder, if one were needed," Cunliffe notes with characteristic charm, "that the seashore is a liminal place where unexpected things can happen!"
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