Mediterranean Diasporas

Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century

Maurizio Isabella, Konstantina Zanou, Maurizio Isabella, Konstantina Zanou

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781472576644
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472576675
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ideas within and from the Mediterranean basin in the long 19th century. In bringing together leading historians working on Southern Europe, the Balkans, and the Ottoman Empire for the first time, it builds bridges across national historiographies, raises a number of comparative questions and unveils unexplored intellectual connections and ideological formulations.

The book shows that in the so-called age of nationalism the idea of the nation state was by no means dominant, as displaced intellectuals and migrant communities developed notions of double national affiliations, imperial patriotism and liberal imperialism. By adopting the Mediterranean as a framework of analysis, the collection offers a fresh contribution to the growing field of transnational and global intellectual history, revising the genealogy of 19th-century nationalism and liberalism, and reveals new perspectives on the intellectual dynamics of the age of revolutions.

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• Map of the Mediterranean
• INTRODUCTION The Sea, its People and their Ideas in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Letters from Spain:The 1820 Revolution and the Liberal International
• An Itinerant Liberal: Almeida Garrett’s Exilic Itineraries and Political Ideas in the Age of Southern European Revolutions (1820–34)
• Learning Lessons from the Iberian Peninsula: Italian Exiles and the Making of a Risorgimento Without People, 1820–48
• Mediterranean Liberals? Italian Revolutionaries and the Making of a Colonial Sea, ca. 1800–30
• Ottomans on the Move: Hassuna D’Ghies and the ‘New Ottomanism’ of the 1830s
• Imperial Nationalism and Orthodox Enlightenment: A Diasporic Story Between the Ionian Islands, Russia and Greece, ca. 1800–30
• Away or Homeward Bound? The Slippery Case of Mediterranean Place in the Era Before Nation-states
• The Strange Lives of Ottoman Liberalism: Exile, Patriotism and Constitutionalism in the Thought of Mustafa Fazıl Paşa
• From Southern Italy to Istanbul: Trajectories of Albanian Nationalism in the Writings of Girolamo de Rada and Shemseddin Sami Frashëri, ca. 1848–1903
• Ottomanism with a Greek Face: Karamanlı Greek Orthodox Diaspora at the End of the Ottoman Empire
• Afterword: Writing Mediterranean Diasporas After the Transnational Turn
• INDEX