Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Lpez-Ruiz Carolina)(Paperback)

"An important new book...offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written."
--Denise Demetriou, New England Classical Journal "With a light touch and a masterful command of the literature, Lpez-Ruiz replaces old ideas with a subtle and more accurate account of the extensive cross-cultural exchange patterns and economy driven by the Phoenician trade networks that 're-wired' the Mediterranean world. A must read."
--J. G. Manning, author of The Open Sea "[A] substantial and important contribution...to the ancient history of the Mediterranean. Lpez-Ruiz's work does justice to the Phoenicians' role in shaping Mediterranean culture by providing rational and factual argumentation and by setting the record
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