American Mediterraneans : a study in geography, history, and race

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    • Gillman, Susan Kay

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American Mediterraneans : a study in geography, history, and race

Susan Gillman

The University of Chicago Press, 2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In this book, Susan Gillman uncovers the ways that geographers and historians, novelists and travel writers, used "American Mediterranean" as a formula from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. She asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, hypothetical, even open-ended comparative thinking. Although "American Mediterranean" is not a household term in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English. Gillman tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept across different networks of writers: from nineteenth-century geographers to writers of the 1890s who reflected on the Pacific world of Southern California, and to literary writers and thinkers of the 1930s and 40s who drew on this comparative tradition to speculate on the political past and future of the Caribbean. As Gillman shows, all these figures grappled with the American legacies of European imperialism and slavery. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and bor

収録内容

  • Preface: The strange career of the American Mediterraneans
  • Introduction: Beginning with Humboldt
  • American Mediterraneans: a space-timeline
  • Nineteenth-Century geographers and their Mediterraneans
  • 1890s California-Pacific Mediterraneans
  • 1940s Gulf-Caribbean Mediterraneans
  • Epilogue: Ending with Braudel

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内容説明

The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America's Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as "Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!" Although "American Mediterranean" is not a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking. American Mediterraneans tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders, American Mediterraneans reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.

目次

List of Figures Preface: The Strange Career of the American Mediterraneans Introduction: Beginning with Humboldt 1 American Mediterraneans: A Space-Timeline 2 Nineteenth-Century Geographers and Their Mediterraneans 3 1890s California-Pacific Mediterraneans 4 1940s Gulf-Caribbean Mediterraneans Epilogue: Ending with Braudel Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index A gallery of figures follows page 000

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