The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Mediterranean Perspectives) - Image 1

£89.48

MACMILLAN The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Mediterranean Perspectives)

Name: The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Mediterranean Perspectives)
Brand: MACMILLAN
Price: 89.48 GBP
Availability: InStock

Italy

Price History & Forecast

Last 43 days • 43 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 43 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £89 (43 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £89 - £89

Price levels: 1 different prices over 43 days

Description

Product 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. Review “The fishing net and the spider web provides us with a detailed and broad study on the genesis and development of two fundamental models whose movements have been central since the Risorgimento in order to make Italians. This volume is a highly valuable contribution to the understanding of Italy’s diasporic and colonialist entanglement … .” (Anna Finozzi, Annali d’italianistica, Vol. 39, 2021)“Well-researched and highly elaborated argument ... . welcome and valuable additions to the field of Italian and Mediterranean studies. They deserve high praise for their interdisciplinarity and for providing useful tools for addressing the issues with which they are concerned. ... The most fascinating parts in Fogu's book are not where he delves into theory but where he considers specific historical episodes, sites, persons, or objects.” (Konstantina Zanou, Italian American Review, Vol. 11 (2), 2021) Review “In a series of innovative excursions into the entangled fields of Italian and Mediterranean studies, Claudio Fogu confronts the complexities of the making of modern Italian identity. Snapping the chains that consistently direct Italy north towards the colonising pole of European modernity, these interlocking essays provocatively pull us south into the critically imaginative possibilities provided by the largely negated networks of the Mediterranean. An essential read for rethinking both the Mediterranean and Italian modernity.”―Iain Chambers, University of Naples – L’Orientale, Italy“This meticulously researched study eloquently brings to light for the first time the complex and often contradictory role that the shifting collective notion of a Mediterranean belonging and even identity has played in the political imagination of Italians, in contrast and often opposition to the prevalent, Eurocentric notion of Italy’s ‘Europeanness.’ Claudio Fogu’s bold rethinking of the cultural history of modern Italy will reshape the way we conceive of both Italy and the Mediterranean as a whole in a global and postcolonial context.”―Lucia Re, UCLA, USA About the Author Claudio Fogu is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Product Specifications

Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 303059856X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Italy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 November 2020
Listed Since: 19 August 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

MACMILLAN The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Mediterranean Perspectives)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

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

Colonialism and National Identity

Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean

Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and Categories (New Politics of Autonomy)

Making and Remaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento

Italy in Uncertain Times: Europeanizing Foreign Policy in the Declining Process of the American Hegemony (Foreign Policies of the Middle Powers)

Routledge European Identity and Culture - Diaspora Studies Book

Imagination Besieged: Coloniality, Violence, and Feminism in “Mediterranean” Art and Literature (Routledge Focus on Literature)

Tra Oltralpe e Mediterraneo: Arte in Italia 1860-1915

Routledge Italian Mobilities (Changing Mobilities) Book

Italy and the Middle East: Geopolitics, Dialogue and Power during the Cold War

Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity (Children's Literature and Culture)

Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Italy in the New International Order, 1917–1922 (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World)

Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present, Fourth Edition

Italy in the European Union: Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity

Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film (Studies in Global Science Fiction)

Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy: Catholic, Communist, and 'Leghist' Communities between Civicness and Localism

Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy, Third Edition (Historical Dictionaries of Europe)

Routledge - Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe Book

Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Under the Sign of Nature)

Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society)