Author : Claudio Fogu
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : History
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The Fishing Net and the Spider Web - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fishing Net and the Spider Web write by Claudio Fogu. This book was released on 2020-11-23. The Fishing Net and the Spider Web available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.