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The making of the modern Mediterranean views from the south

Title
The making of the modern Mediterranean [electronic resource] : views from the south / edited by Judith Tucker.
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • Tucker, Judith E.
  • Abi-Mershed, Osama.
  • Burke, Edmund, III, 1940-
  • Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann.
  • Granara, William.
  • Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949-
  • White, Joshua M., 1981-
Description
1 online resource.
Summary
"Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. In this groundbreaking volume, seven leading authors challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories and so problematize our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the south--from its Arab and African shores--the book asks anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders and defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they endured? How long will they? Covering the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, this timely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, making clear that only recently have the northern and southern been differentiated into separate cultural and political zones. The Making of the Modern Mediterranean offers a blueprint for a new generation of readers to rethink the world we thought we knew"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform Title
Making of the modern Mediterranean (Online)
Subject
Mediterranean Region > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Contents
The 'Mediterranean' through Arab eyes in the early modern period : from "Rūmī" to the "white in-between" sea / Nabil Matar -- The Mediterranean of the Barbary coasts : gone missing / Julia Clancy-Smith -- The Mediterranean of modernity : the longue durée perspective / Edmund Burke, III -- Piracy and captivity of the Ottoman Mediterranean : slave laundering and subjecthood / Joshua M. White -- Piracy in the Eighteenth-century Mediterranean : navigating laws and legal practices / Judith E. Tucker -- The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian imagination : the 'nuptial bed' / Osama Abi-Mershed -- The Mediterranean in colonial North African literature : contesting views / William Granara.
LCCN
2019005108
OCLC
ssj0002151679
Title
The making of the modern Mediterranean [electronic resource] : views from the south / edited by Judith Tucker.
Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Tucker, Judith E.
Abi-Mershed, Osama.
Burke, Edmund, III, 1940-
Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann.
Granara, William.
Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949-
White, Joshua M., 1981-
Other Form:
Print version: Making of the modern Mediterranean Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520304598 (DLC) 2019001399
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