{"product_id":"mediterranean-europes-9780367538965","title":"Mediterranean Europes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurprisingly, 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 an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Saint-Simonian Vision of the Mediterranean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Paci\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Port of Europe: Hegel’s Geophilosophy of History and the Spirit of the Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlessandro De Arcangelis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Mediterranean Imaginaries: Europe, Empire, and Islam in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavin Murray-Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Cradle, Frontier, and Contact: The Mediterranean in Geohistorical Narratives of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Wiedemann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.‘Europe from Afar’: A Poetic History of the Jewish Mediterranean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario Miccoli\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Max Weber in Southern Europe: The Problem with Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberto Dainotto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Europe or the Mediterranean? Paul Valéry and the French Debate of the 1930s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaola Cattani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. ‘A Liquid Continent’: Alterity and Continuity between the Mediterranean Sea and Europe in Gabriel Audisio’s Interwar Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiriam Begliuomini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Mare Nostrum and the European Polity: Fascist Italy and the Mediterranean Sea in European Civilisation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucio Valent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Archipelago: Rethinking Europe from its Islands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Sermini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Mediterraneanising Europe? How a German Book and the Mediterranean Perspective Could Help us to Better Understand the EU and its Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Pichler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017946988887,"sku":"9780367538965","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367538965.jpg?v=1750775166","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediterranean-europes-9780367538965","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}