The making of the modern Mediterranean : views from the south /

"Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. In this groundbreaking volume, seven leading authors challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories and so prob...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Tucker, Judith E. (Editor, Contributor), Abi-Mershed, Osama (Contributor), Burke, Edmund, III, 1940- (Contributor), Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann (Contributor), Granara, William (Contributor), Matar, N. I. 1949- (Contributor), White, Joshua M., 1981- (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • The 'Mediterranean' through Arab eyes in the early modern period : from "Rūmī" to the "white in-between" sea / Nabil Matar
  • The Mediterranean of the Barbary coasts : gone missing / Julia Clancy-Smith
  • The Mediterranean of modernity : the longue durée perspective / Edmund Burke, III
  • Piracy and captivity of the Ottoman Mediterranean : slave laundering and subjecthood / Joshua M. White
  • Piracy in the Eighteenth-century Mediterranean : navigating laws and legal practices / Judith E. Tucker
  • The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian imagination : the 'nuptial bed' / Osama Abi-Mershed
  • The Mediterranean in colonial North African literature : contesting views / William Granara.