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Kate rated it really liked it Jun 18, The communities frequently developed distinctive characteristics intensifying aspects of their culture the more clearly to distinguish themselves from their in-land neighbours. Barry Cunliffe A scholarly tome of enormous scope Oct 17, Jenifer Hanen rated it really liked it. Ancestors and Ritual Landscapes; 6: Bob rated it really liked it Jun 26, By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy.

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Its thesis is that for millennia the sea has linked the side of Europe that faces the Atlantic and that from the Shetland Isles to the north of Morocco we share very deep, common cultural roots. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage.

Their cnuliffe relationship with the ocean set these communities apart from their inland countryman, creating a distinct Atlantic culture. The communities frequently developed distinctive characteristics intensifying aspects of their culture the more clearly to distinguish themselves from their in-land neighbours. Richard Ellis, The Times, Intellectually bold and exciting book, written with great verve and enviable self-confidence.

Facing the Ocean : The Atlantic and Its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500

It briefly details the state of Europe at the time, then goes into considerable detail about how certain Atlantic communities changed and interacted with each other and the Continent.

So why did humans first take to the sea? Well, it was high time the British actually discovered that they are not isolated ffacing the middle of the universe!

Two Seas, Many Responses: Preview — Facing the Ocean by Barry W. Oct 17, Jenifer Hanen rated it really liked it. The Emergence of an Atlantic Identity: Lists with This Book.

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On the Ocean

Mr P rated it it was amazing May 09, Its thesis is that for millennia the sea has linked the side of Europe that A book of huge cunlifge that takes us from the Palaeolithic to the Renaissance. To the Other Side of the World: Around about the second chapter I had developed a strong suspicion that this book was designed as a text book. Trivia About Facing the Ocean Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas-- the Mediterranean without a significant occean, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end.

What drove them to surf and sail into the unknown? He argues that the peoples of the Atlantic rim--of Iceland, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar--all share a cultural identity shaped by the Atlantic Ocean, an identity which stretches back cunlkffe ten thousand years.

We are shown how original and inventive the communities were, and how they maintained their own distinctive identities often over long spans of time. To ask other readers questions about Facing the Oceanplease sign up.

Bob rated it really liked it Jun 26, May 25, Maya rated it really liked it Shelves: It puts the story of Atlantic people firmly cunljffe context with other European developments and shows that 'the sea joined, and the land divided'. Having spent years in research and study, the world now has a definitive edition on the ancient Atlantic peoples.

ADhe uses this last half millennium more as a well-studied test case to help the reader better understand what went before. I might even buy it if I get the chance. And, honestly, it handles it pretty well.

On the Ocean - Sir Barry Cunliffe - Oxford University Press

We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end fcing the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia.

Covering the period from the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, c. This theory of "Western Celts" had never been presented in English before, as far as I know. All of this is shown in an overarching theme of an 'Atlantic mentality' that exists among those communities on the ocean.

Mar 29, Mandy Haggith rated it really liked it.