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Book SynopsisMaurizio Isabella is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is author of
Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Émigrés and the Liberal International in the Post- Napoleonic Era (2009).
Konstantina Zanou is a visiting fellow at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies, France and Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies, Columbia University, USA (from fall 2016).
Trade ReviewThis wonderful, inspiring volume can be expected to play an important role in how we tell (and teach) the story of Mediterranean history in the long nineteenth century. Connected history has never been so good! * European History Quarterly *
Mediterranean Diasporas is a highly sophisticated and engaging example of the new histories of connection which seek to understand the history of today's globalised world. The introduction, afterword and ten chapters consider the movement of people and ideas across this iconic sea from the early-nineteenth century 'age of revolutions' to the eve of the First World War. Avoiding any easy dichotomy beween the national, the diasporic and the global, the volume brings these concepts into productive dialogue. * C. A. Bayly, formerly Queen Mary, University of London, UK *
In this terrific sequence of essays, Fernand Braudel’s Mediterranean world persists into modern times, but with regional unity and diasporic traffic provided by concepts, including revolutionary ones. Bringing the burgeoning study of the 'corrupting sea' beyond its normal chronological limits, the volume brightly illuminates the ramifications of liberalism, nationalism, and empire, and takes a valuable further step in the construction of an intellectual history across long distances. * Samuel Moyn, Harvard University, USA *
Amidst the abundance of the scholarship on the Mediterranean, this volume is stunning in both its sweep and its depth. As an ensemble, the editors’ comprehensive introduction, combined with the contributors’ highly original research on mobile people, power, and ideas, make this a monumental contribution. Given current Mediterranean affairs, this work could not be more timely. Moreover, scholars interested in diasporas across the globe will find much that is new here. * Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona, USA *
The contributions, which culminate in a successful collective study, present analyzes of individual political, predominantly liberal intellectuals in the Mediterranean, whose transnational commitment has contributed significantly to the transformation of the (national) cultures and societies of the Mediterranean in the 19th century. * H-Soz-Kult (Bloomsbury Translation) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Sea, its People and their Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Konstantina Zanou, IEA Paris-Columbia University, USA) 1. Letters from Spain. The 1820 Revolution and the Liberal International
(Juan Luis Simal, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) 2. An Itinerant Liberal: Almeida Garrett’s Exilic Itineraries and Political Ideas in the Age of Southern European Revolutions (1820-1834)
(Gabriel Paquette, The Johns Hopkins University, USA) 3. Learning Lessons from the Iberian Peninsula: Italian Exiles and the Making of a Risorgimento without People, 1820-1848
(Grégoire Bron, University of Geneva, Switzerland) 4. Mediterranean Liberals? Italian Revolutionaries and the Making of a Colonial Sea, 1800-1830 ca.
(Maurizio Isabella) 5. Ottomans on the Move: Hassuna D’Ghies and the ‘New Ottomanism’ of the 1830s (Ian Coller, La Trobe University, Melbourne) 6. Imperial Nationalism and Orthodox Enlightenment: A Diasporic Story between the Ionian Islands, Russia and Greece, ca. 1800-1830
(Konstantina Zanou) 7. Away or Homeward Bound? The Slippery Case of Mediterranean Place in the Era before Nation-States
(Dominique Kirchner Reill, University of Miami, USA) 8. The Strange Lives of Ottoman Liberalism: Exile, Patriotism, and Constitutionalism in the Thought of Mustafa Fazil Pasa
(Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge, UK) 9. From Southern Italy to Istanbul: Trajectories of Albanian nationalism in the writings of Geronimo de Rada and Sami Frashëri, 1848- 1903 ca.
(Artan Puto, “Marin Barleti” University, Albania and Maurizio Isabella) 10. Ottomanism with a Greek Face: Karamanli Greek Orthodox Diaspora at the End of the Ottoman Empire
(Vangelis Kechriotis, Bogaziçi University, Turkey) 11. Afterword: Writing Mediterranean Diasporas after the Transnational Turn
(Thomas Gallant, University of California San Diego, USA) Bibliography Index
