Winner of the 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies Winner of the 2019 Edmund Keely Book Prize Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by narrating the biographies of a group of people who were born within empires but came of age surrounded by the emerging vocabulary of nationalism, much of which they themselves created. It is the story of a generation of intellectuals and political thinkers from the Ionian Islands who experienced the collapse of the Republic of Venice and the dissolution of the common cultural and political space of the Adriatic, and who contributed to the creation of Italian and Greek nationalisms. By uncovering this forgotten intellectual universe, Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean retrieves a world characterized by multiple cultural, intellectual, and political affiliations that have since been buried by the conventional narrative of the formation of nation-states. Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean rethinks the origins of Italian and Greek nationalisms and states, highlighting the intellectual connection between the Italian peninsula, Greece, and Russia, and reestablishing the lost link between the changing geopolitical contexts of western Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans in the Age of Revolutions. It re-inscribes important intellectuals and political figures, considered 'national fathers' of Italy and Greece (such as Ugo Foscolo, Dionysios Solomos, Ioannis Kapodistrias, and Niccolo Tommaseo), into their regional and multicultural context, and shows how nations emerged from an intermingling, rather than a clash, of ideas concerning empire and liberalism, Enlightenment and religion, revolution and conservatism, and East and West.
Reviews
'This book breaks new ground between transnational intellectual history, biography and cultural history and even suggests - rather unassumingly - a different way of writing history; it is bound to travel well and will accompany many who delve into the history of the Adriatic Sea'. * Sakis Gekas, H-Soz-u-Kult *
'To say that this book makes significant contributions to a number of historiographical themes is probably an understatement ... a book that has transgressed a number of scholarly boundaries and that has already become a reference book for the history of the region. This work is useful not just for specialists in the field (and for relevant university courses), but also for all those who want to enhance their knowledge of modern Europe, and of the processes through which the modern world emerged. * Michalis Sotiropoulos, Reviews in History *
'A pioneering contribution to our general understanding of early Mediterranean and European liberalism, patriotism and nation-building; it is also a refreshing methodological renovation of the way to approach history.' * Rolf Petri, History: The Journal of the Historical Association *


Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2020 Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize.



Book Information
ISBN 9780198885108
Author Zanou
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 15mm