LE MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN, 15000 ANS D'HISTOIRE

A far-reaching synthesis that makes it possible to understand the role and importance of the diterranean world at the crux of the historical events that are shaping and shaking up the archives deposited in Berlin in 1993.

Alain Blondy, displaying his mastery of the wide-ranging historical overview, retraces the past of the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present day. This crucible of civilization witnessed the development of the ancient ideas that constituted philosophy, law and politics, followed by monotheism, which gave birth to the three religions of revelation: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Long the economic heart of the West, it was demoted by the discovery of the oceans to a more secondary role, before returning to the forefront of human endeavor through the expansion of nationalities, the triumph of the industrial revolution and the clash of empires.
By apprehending the Mediterranean world in a long-term perspective and by balancing the Western and Eastern points of view, Blondy highlights the erosion of empires, the issue of borders and recent political and religious tensions.

A university professor, Alain Blondy taught for more than thirty years at CELSA (Paris IV). He was a visiting professor in Tunis, Cyprus, and Moscow and taught at the University of Malta. He is considered one of today's top experts on the Mediterranean world, about which he has written several books. Fruit of his many years of teaching, he published Nouvelle histoires des idées (A New History of Ideas) at Perrin in 2016.