Mediterranean Diasporas Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century

by Isabella, Maurizio; Zanou, Konstantina

• ISBN13: 9781472576644
• ISBN10: 1472576640
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• Copyright: 2015-11-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Maurizio Isabella is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is author of Risorgimento in Exile: Italian Émigrés and the Liberal International in the Post- Napoleonic Era (2009).

Konstantina Zanou is a Fellow of The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Konstantina Zanou, Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria)
1. The Patriotism of the Expatriates: The Witness of Three Cypriot Diaspora Authors (Paschalis M. Kitromilides, University of Athens, Greece)
2. The Last Intellectuals - “Bridges” Across the Adriatic: Niccolò Tommaseo and Andrea Mustoxidi and the End of Transnational Patriotism (Konstantina Zanou, Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria)
3. A Mediterranean Patriotism?: Liberalism and the British Empire in a European Periphery (ca. 1800-1830) (Maurizio Isabella, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
4. Young Ottomans?: North Africans in Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century (Ian Coller, La Trobe University, Melbourne)
5. Ottoman Lebanese Patriotism and Global Aiasporas in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Ilham Khuri-Makdhisi, Northeastern University, USA)
6. An Itinerant Liberal: Almeida Garrett's Exilic Itineraries and the Evolution of his Political Thought (Gabriel Paquette, The Johns Hopkins University, USA)
7. The Evolution of Liberalism in a Mediterranean Context: Risorgimento Exiles in the Iberian Peninsula (1821-1848) (Grégoire Bron, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
8. Cultural Exchanges between East and West: Joseph Hekekyan and the Modernisation of Egypt (1820-1860ca) (Anthony Santilli, EPHE-Paris, France)
9. Karamanli Greek-Orthodox or Anatolian Christians: A Aiasporic Elite between Cappadocia, Smyrna/Izmir and Athens at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Vangelis Kechriotis, Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
10. “We are the oldest, we are the latest”: The idea of the Albanian Nation in the Writings of the Albanian Diaspora Intellectuals between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Artan Puto, “Marin Barleti” University, Albania)
11. The Strange Lives of Ottoman Liberalism: Exile, Patriotism, and Constitutionalism in Eastern Mediterranean Political Thought, 1856-1876 (Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge, UK)
12. Exiled or Homeward Bound? The Slippery Case of Mediterranean Place in the Era before Nation-States (Dominique Reill, University of Miami, USA)
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