Bokus
Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Todd Shepard - French Mediterraneans, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2016

French Mediterraneans

Transnational and Imperial Histories

Av Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Todd Shepard

Del i serien France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

678 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet (PDF kräver ofta zoom och scroll på små skärmar).

Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

Patricia M. E. Lorcin is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900–Present and Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria, New Edition (Nebraska, 2014). Todd Shepard is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France.

Recensioner i media

“Patricia Lorcin and Todd Shepard have produced some of the most innovative work on French colonialism and cultural understandings of identity and place published anywhere in recent times.”-Martin Thomas, author of Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers, and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918–1940 “No other volume brings such a wide variety of perspectives and expertise to bear on the understudied nineteenth-century Mediterranean, compelling us to rethink how we conceive of the Mediterranean in the colonial and postcolonial periods.”-George R. Trumbull IV, author of An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870–1914

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.