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Autore |
Fogu Claudio <1963-> |
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Titolo |
The Fishing Net and the Spider Web : Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians / / by Claudio Fogu |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIII, 296 p. 30 illus., 19 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Mediterranean Perspectives, , 2731-5606 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Italy - History |
Historiography |
History - Methodology |
Civilization - History |
World history |
History of Italy |
Historiography and Method |
Cultural History |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction: Mediterranean Imaginaries -- 2. Making Italians, Making Southerners -- 3. The Fishing Net and the Spider Web -- 4. Homo Mediterraneus -- 5. Epiphanic Mediterraneanism -- 6. Between Imperium and Emporion -- 7. Fascist Mediterraneanism -- 8. From Mare Nostrum to Mare Aliorum -- 9. Coda: The Mediterranean Quest(ion). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern |
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Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging. |
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