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The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

By Claudio Fogu

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030598563, 9783030598570
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59857-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6447402 bytes)
Series
Mediterranean Perspectives
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XIII, 296\302
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Global and Transnational HistoryHistory; History of Italy; Historiography and Meth

Description

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 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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