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's eastern 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, this timely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, demonstrating that 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.
About the AuthorJudith E. Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University and author of
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law,
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, and
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.
Reviews"The volume partakes of recent efforts to expand [Mediterranean] historiography with studies that take 'Arab and Turkish lands as points of departure.'" * Journal of Historical Geography *
"Taken as a whole, this is a modest collection that does a nice job of inviting us to think harder about the Mediterranean as a space, and about the interplay of its southern, eastern, western, and northern shores." * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *
Book InformationISBN 9780520304604
Author Judith E. TuckerFormat Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 318g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm