Description
Book SynopsisStudies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories, and in doing so, they challenge our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the Mediterranean'seastern and southern shores, they ask anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders, its defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they or will they endure? Covering the sixteenth century to the twentieth, thistimely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, demonstratingthat only recently can we differentiate the north and south into separate cultural and political zones. The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the Southoffers a blueprint for a new gene
Trade Review"The volume partakes of recent efforts to expand [Mediterranean] historiography with studies that take ‘Arab and Turkish lands as points of departure.’" * Journal of Historical Geography *
"Taken as a whole, this is a modest collection that does a nice job of inviting us to think harder about the Mediterranean as a space, and about the interplay of its southern, eastern, western, and northern shores." * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments Introduction
Judith E. Tucker 1. The “Mediterranean” through Arab Eyes in the Early Modern
Period: From Rūmī to the “White In-Between Sea”
Nabil Matar 2. The Mediterranean of the Barbary Coast: Gone Missing
Julia Clancy-Smith 3. The Mediterranean of Modernity: The Longue Durée Perspective
Edmund Burke III 4. Piracy of the Ottoman Mediterranean: Slave Laundering and
Subjecthood
Joshua M. White 5. Piracy of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean: Navigating
Laws and Legal Practices
Judith E. Tucker 6. The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian Imagination:
The “Nuptial Bed”
Osama Abi-Mershed 7. The Mediterranean in Colonial North African Literature:
Contesting Views
William GranaraContributors
Selected Readings
Index
