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Mediterranean Europe(s) - Rethinking Europe from Its Southern Shores (Hardcover)
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Mediterranean Europe(s) - Rethinking Europe from Its Southern Shores (Hardcover)
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This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe
have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many
worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern
scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in
most histories of the idea of Europe the Mediterranean is
conspicuously absent. This might partly be explained by the fact
that historians have often identified Europe with modernity (and
the Atlantic world) and, therefore, in opposition to the classical
world (centred around the Mediterranean). This book will challenge
such views, showing that a plethora of thinkers, from the early
nineteenth century to the present, have refused to relegate the
Mediterranean to the past. Importance is given to the idea of a
distinct 'meridian thought', a notion first set forth by Albert
Camus and now reworked by French and Italian thinkers. As most
chapters argue, this might represent an important tool for
rethinking the Mediterranean and, in turn, it might help us
challenge received notions about European identity and rethink
Europe as the locus of 'modernity'. Mediterranean Europe(s):
Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores will appeal to
researchers and students alike interested in European studies and
Mediterranean history.
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