Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores (Ideas beyond Borders) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367538997 ISBN 13: 9780367538996

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Matthew D’Auria is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia.

Fernanda Gallo is Associate Professor of Nineteenth Century Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Homerton College

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367538997
• ISBN 13: 9780367538996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: D’Auria Matthew, Gallo Fernanda