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In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies primarily include, in the Baltic case, the Åland Islands, Gotland, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Ruhnu; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands’ identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this book provides a historical perspective into the relations between islands and the larger geopolitical regions around them, as well as historicizing ‘insularist’ rhetoric deployed by pro-independence groups within them. Paci examines the changing role and increasing political importance of islands in the European Union against the history of island insularity and offers a significant contribution to the wider field of island studies.

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In this fascinating book about the main islands in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, Deborah Paci shows that isola has little to do with isolation despite their shared origin. Rather than being isolated, Sardinia, Corsica, Gotland, Saaremaa, and the other book islands are closely connected in their larger spatial and historical context. * Bo Strath, University of Helsinki, Finland * A superb exercise in comparative imagination and the comparative study of imaginaries, Paci's book enriches island studies with a cultural-political perspective that rejects the lure of geographical determinism in all of its facets. Between the Seas demonstrates that a correct orientation towards islandness is the best antidote towards insularism in both politics and scholarship. * Claudio Fogu, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *

In this fascinating book about the main islands in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, Deborah Paci shows that isola has little to do with isolation despite their shared origin. Rather than being isolated, Sardinia, Corsica, Gotland, Saaremaa, and the other book islands are closely connected in their larger spatial and historical context. * Bo Strath, University of Helsinki, Finland *

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Deborah Paci teaches Digital Public History at the University of Bologna and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She is also Research Associate at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean of Côte d'Azur University, France, and the Institute of Island Studies of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is the author of Corsica fatal, Malta baluardo di romanità. L’irredentismo fascista nel mare nostrum (1922-1942) (2015) and L’arcipelago della pace. Le isole Åland e il Baltico (XIX-XXI sec.) (2016).

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