Awards
- Winner of Winner of the 2019 Edmund Keely Book Prize.
- Winner of Winner of the 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies Winner of the 2019 Edmund Keely Book Prize.
- Winner of Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies Winner of the 2019 Edmund Keely Book Prize.
Overview
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emerging vocabulary of nationalism, much of which they themselves created. It is the story of a generation of intellectuals and political thinkers from the Ionian Islands who experienced the collapse of the Republic of Venice and the dissolution of the common cultural and political space of the Adriatic, and who contributed to the creation of Italian and Greek nationalisms. By uncovering this forgotten intellectual universe, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean retrieves a world characterized by multiple cultural, intellectual, and political affiliations that have since been buried by the conventional narrative of the formation of nation-states. Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean rethinks the origins of Italian and Greek nationalisms and states, highlighting the intellectual connection between the Italian peninsula, Greece, and Russia, and reestablishing the lost link between the changing geopolitical contexts of western Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans in the Age of Revolutions. It re-inscribes important intellectuals and political figures, considered 'national fathers' of Italy and Greece (such as Ugo Foscolo, Dionysios Solomos, Ioannis Kapodistrias and Niccolò Tommaseo), into their regional and multicultural context, and shows how nations emerged from an intermingling, rather than a clash, of ideas concerning empire and liberalism, Enlightenment and religion, revolution and conservatism, and East and West.
Full Product Details
Author: Konstantina Zanou (Assistant Professor of Italian, Assistant Professor of Italian, Columbia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.574kg
ISBN: 9780198788706
ISBN 10: 0198788703
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 23 November 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
To say that this book makes significant contributions to a number of historiographical themes is probably an understatement...a book that has transgressed a number of scholarly boundaries and that has already become a reference book for the history of the region. This work is useful not just for specialists in the field (and for relevant university courses), but also for all those who want to enhance their knowledge of modern Europe, and of the processes through which the modern world emerged. * Dr. Michalis Sotiropoulos, University of Athens, Reviews in History *
This book breaks new ground between transnational intellectual history, biography and cultural history and even suggests — rather unassumingly — a different way of writing history; it is bound to travel well and will accompany many who delve into the history of the Adriatic Sea * Sakis Gekas, H-Soz-u-Kult * To say that this book makes significant contributions to a number of historiographical themes is probably an understatement...a book that has transgressed a number of scholarly boundaries and that has already become a reference book for the history of the region. This work is useful not just for specialists in the field (and for relevant university courses), but also for all those who want to enhance their knowledge of modern Europe, and of the processes through which the modern world emerged. * Dr. Michalis Sotiropoulos, University of Athens, Reviews in History * 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. * Rolf Petri, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, History: The Journal of the Historical Association *
Author Information
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).
