The Fishing Net and the Spider Web - Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Mediterranean Perspectives
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Claudio Fogu
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-059856-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-059856-X
Barcode:	9783030598563

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