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, migrati
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"Patricia M.E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard, both authors of important works on French colonization and decolonization, respectively, in North Africa, have put together an important volume of essays."—Sarah A. Curtis, H-France
“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
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroductionPatricia M. E. Lorcin and Todd ShepardPart I. Rethinking Mediterranean Maps (Maps to Rethink the Mediterranean)1. Révolutions de Constantinople: France and the Ottoman World in the Age of RevolutionsAli Yaycioglu2. Barbary and Revolution: France and North Africa, 1789–1798Ian Coller3. “There Is, in the Heart of Asia . . . an Entirely French Population”: France, Mount Lebanon, and the Workings of Affective Empire in the Mediterranean, 1830–1920Andrew Arsan4. Natural Disaster, Globalization, and Decolonization: The Case of the 1960 Agadir EarthquakeSpencer SegallaPart II. Shifting Frameworks of Migration (Migrations across the Mediterranean)5. The French Nation of Constantinople in the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Saints Peter and Paul Parish Records, 1740–1800Edhem Eldem6. An Ottoman in Paris: A Tale of Mediterranean CoinageMarc Aymes7. From Household to Schoolroom: Women, Transnational Networks, and Education in North Africa and BeyondJulia Clancy-Smith8. Europeans before Europe? The Mediterranean Prehistory of European Integration and ExclusionMary Dewhurst LewisPart III. Margins Remade (by the Mediterranean)9. Dreyfus in the Sahara: Jews, Trans-Saharan Commerce, and Southern Algeria under French Colonial RuleSarah Abrevaya Stein10. Moïse Nahon and the Invention of the Modern Maghrebi JewSusan Gilson Miller11. The Syphilitic Arab? A Search for Civilization in Disease Etiology, Native Prostitution, and French Colonial MedicineEllen Amster12. From Auschwitz to Algeria: The Mediterranean Limits of the French Anti–Concentration Camp Movement, 1952–1959Emma KubyBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
