Ivan Grech Struggling Against Isolation
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Islands and their problems have elicited a dominant place in maritime historiography. Whether vital stations along important shipping routes or marginal places often by-passed by civilizations and history, their role and condition, their subsistence, their centrality to the flow of goods and the diffusion of cultures and, most prominently, their supposed isolation have much intrigued scholars of the social sciences.
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