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Puglieseâs MoreâThanâHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that moreâthanâhuman diasporic entitiesâsuch as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural stylesâhave functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that preâexisted and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade. This book traces, for example, the diasporic travels of the eucalyptus from Indigenous Country to Joseph Banksâ botanical collection in London and then onto a grand Englishâstyle garden in Southern Italy which was built on the historically effaced labour of enslaved people.

By deploying techniques of historical recovery, this book brings to light otherwise buried histories, thereby demonstrating the pivotal role of Mediterranean enslavement in the shaping of Italian society and culture. This book develops a topological understanding of cultural history to ac

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 10/28/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032497235
      978-1032497235
      ISBN-10 1032497238
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      Book Synopsis

      Puglieseâs MoreâThanâHuman Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that moreâthanâhuman diasporic entitiesâsuch as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural stylesâhave functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that preâexisted and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade. This book traces, for example, the diasporic travels of the eucalyptus from Indigenous Country to Joseph Banksâ botanical collection in London and then onto a grand Englishâstyle garden in Southern Italy which was built on the historically effaced labour of enslaved people.

      By deploying techniques of historical recovery, this book brings to light otherwise buried histories, thereby demonstrating the pivotal role of Mediterranean enslavement in the shaping of Italian society and culture. This book develops a topological understanding of cultural history to ac

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