The Making of the Modern Mediterranean

Views from the South

Judith E. Tucker

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780520304604
• eBook ISBN: 9780520973206
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. The seven leading authors in this groundbreaking volume challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories, and in doing so, they challenge our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the Mediterranean'seastern and southern shores, they ask anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders, its defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they or will they endure? Covering the sixteenth century to the twentieth, thistimely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, demonstratingthat only recently can we differentiate the north and south into separate cultural and political zones. The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South offers a blueprint for a new generation of readers to rethink the world we thought we knew.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Making of the Modern Mediterranean
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The “Mediterranean” through Arab Eyes in the Early Modern Period: From Rūmī to the “White In-Between Sea”
• 2. The Mediterranean of the Barbary Coast: Gone Missing
• 3. The Mediterranean of Modernity: The Longue Durée Perspective
• 4. Piracy of the Ottoman Mediterranean: Slave Laundering and Subjecthood
• 5. Piracy of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean: Navigating Laws and Legal Practices
• 6. The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian Imagination: The “Nuptial Bed”
• 7. The Mediterranean in Colonial North African Literature: Contesting Views
• Contributors
• Selected Readings
• Index