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Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores book cover

1st Edition

Mediterranean Europe(s) Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores

Edited By Matthew D’Auria, Fernanda Gallo Copyright 2023
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge
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This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean Sea and its many worlds from the nineteenth century onwards. Surprisingly, modern scholars have often neglected such an influence and, in fact, in most histories of the idea of Europe the Mediterranean is conspicuously absent. This might partly be explained by the fact that... Read more

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Biography

Matthew D’Auria is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia.

Fernanda Gallo is Associate Professor of Nineteenth Century Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Homerton College

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