Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation

ISBN-13: 9780198788706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Konstantina Zanou

Opis

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean charts the lives of those who lived along the shores of the Adriatic during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the region was transformed from a 'Venetian lake' into a battlefield between old and new imperial powers and where emerging nationalisms and nation-states emerged.

Recenzje

Konstantina Zanou's brilliant text offers pleasurable reading thanks to the concreteness and vividness of the narration. The biographical portraits include personal traits, sad and funny twists and the passions and intimate moments of discomfort of the heroes...the author narrates their lives based on a rigorous scholarly selection of sources that includes forgotten writings and documents from eleven archives in Greece, Italy, France and Switzerland...a pioneering contribution to our general understanding of early Mediterranean and European liberalism, patriotism and nation-building; it is also a refreshing methodological renovation of the way to approach history.

O autorze

Konstantina Zanou is Assistant Professor of Italian, specializing in Mediterranean Studies, in the Italian Department at Columbia University. She is a historian of the long nineteenth century in the Mediterranean. Her research focuses on issues of intellectual and literary history, biography, and microhistory, with a special emphasis on Italy (the Risorgimento), the Venetian Republic, the Ottoman world, Greece, the Ionian Islands, and Russia. She is also a student of modern diasporas and of the trajectories and ideas of people on the move. She has co-edited (with Maurizio Isabella) the volume Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century (2016).