Stammering the Nation: Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean

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Date

May 2022

Abstract

The history of a generation of Ionian intellectuals, authors and political figures – from Ugo Foscolo, Kalvos and Solomos to Kapodistrias, Andreas Moustoxydis and Niccolò Tomasseo – who experienced the collapse of the Venetian Republic and of the shared cultural and political space of the Adriatic area. Prominent witnesses of the long transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states, they contributed to the emergence of Greek and Italian nationalism, decisively shaping their vocabulary. Reviewing these biographies and their forgotten intellectual universe, Konstantina Zanou reconstructs a world of diverse ties, ideas and exchanges – a mixture, rather than a clash, of elements of liberalism and empire, Enlightenment and religion, conservatism and revolution, East and West that were consequently buried under the conventional narrative of the advent of the nation-state. Starting from the Ionian Islands, the study follows the threads that stretched from pre-national, unified Italy and pre- and post-revolutionary Greece to imperial Russia, restoring the lost link between the changing geopolitical contexts of Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Balkans in the age of revolution.

(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)

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Book

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Language

Greek

Bibliographic Citation

https://alexandria-publ.gr/shop/travlizontas-to-ethnos/

Number Of Pages - Duration

344

Rights

note

This book is a translation of Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation, which was published in 2018 by Oxford University Press.

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1821 in academia

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