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American Mediterraneans - A Study in Geography, History, and Race (Hardcover)
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American Mediterraneans - A Study in Geography, History, and Race (Hardcover)
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The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a
shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and
travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The
naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in
the early nineteenth century, called it America's Mediterranean.
Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as "Our
Mediterranean, Our Italy!" Although "American Mediterranean" is not
a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated
widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk
idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done
by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking.
American Mediterraneans tracks two centuries of this geohistorical
concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s
reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers
of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future
of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across
disciplines and borders, American Mediterraneans reveals a
little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to
a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Susan Gillman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-81964-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-81964-7 |
Barcode: |
9780226819648 |
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