While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified
space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea
has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one,
devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically
patrolled the region’s seas and controlled its ports. By
contrast, for the peoples of its southern shores, the Mediterranean
was polymorphous, shifting with the economic and seafaring
exigencies of the moment. Nonetheless, by the nineteenth century
the idea of a monolithic Mediterranean had either been absorbed by
or imposed on the populations of the region. In French
Mediterraneans editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard offer
a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French
element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the
singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of
space and movement through new approaches to think about the maps,
migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and
transnational context. By reconceptualizing the Mediterranean, this
volume illuminates the diversity of connections between places and
polities that rarely fit models of nation-state allegiances or
preordained geographies.
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