Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean"An important new bookoffers 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