The Boundaries of Europe
The Boundaries of Europe

Author: Pietro Rossi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3110420724

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Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world.From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.

Security Challenges in the Euro-Med Area in the 21st Century
Security Challenges in the Euro-Med Area in the 21st Century

Author: Stephen C. Calleya

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0415566258

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This book provides an empirical analysis of security challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean area and highlights the political, military, economic, societal and environmental issues that are already serving as a source of instability in the region.

Follow the Coast
Follow the Coast

Author: Charles Van Haverbeke

Publisher: Lannoo Publishers

Published: 2022-03-14

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9789401476133

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* A travel guide that brings together photographs, insider information, and recommendations from the first leg of the Mare Nostrum relay race along the coast of Northern Europe, from Knokke to San-Sebastian. Includes 500 stunning landscape photos* A great resource for those who want to hike on the trail and for those who just want to visit the hotspots around the European coastline"A walk with which we write history" - Charles Van Haverbeke in De Standaard newspaper "The Mare Nostrum Run is mainly about togetherness, not about performance or setting a top time." - Charles Van Haverbeke in Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper An insiders travel guide based on the Mare Nostrum Run, a relay race taking place over 3 years which covers 89,000 km of Northern European coastline. This book is the result of the first part of this event: the route from the Belgian seaside town Knokke to San-Sebastian in Spain. At each phase -- the race is divided into 100 km sections -- the reader learns what the local hot spots are, which walks you should take, what the hidden places are that you might not hear about elsewhere. No less than 500 landscape images taken by the participants make Follow the Coast a visual gem, and an engaging record of this amazing event.

Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940
Italian Foreign Policy 1870-1940

Author: C.J. Lowe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1134555822

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This is Volume VIII of eleven in a collection of works on Foreign Policies of the Great Powers. Originally published in 1975, and looks at the polices of Italy from 1870 to 1940 including topics from independence to alliance, Mancini, Robilant, the Crispi period, the Prinetti-Barrere agreement, War during 1914 and 15, Mussolini, Italo-French relations, The Rome-berlin Axis, and the war in 1940.

Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region

Author: Maths Bertell

Publisher: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462982635

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This anthology provides an in-depth introduction to the networks shaped by the Baltic Sea, the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples.

Mare Nostrum
Mare Nostrum

Author: Khaled Mattawa

Publisher: Sarabande Books

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1946448370

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“On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question’s not stated, only implied.” In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from Africa and the Middle East to European countries. For the refugees, the journeys were harrowing, often ending in shipwrecks or imprisonment, and the arrivals were wracked with uncertainty. Here, the poet Khaled Mattawa conjures a pointed, incantatory account of the refugee experience in the Mediterranean. In reclaiming the operation's name Mare Nostrum (our sea in Latin), he renders us culpable for the losses, and responsible to those risking their lives in pursuit of hope and respite from oppression. The voices are many, and the lyrics ritualistic, as if Mattawa has stirred ghosts from the wreckage. Part narrative, part blessing, this chapbook begs of its readers: Do you remember? Mattawa’s writing is a lighthouse for politics of the twenty-first century, and this chapbook a stunning memorial.

Sea of the Caliphs
Sea of the Caliphs

Author: Christophe Picard

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0674660463

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Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web
The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

Author: Claudio Fogu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3030598578

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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.

The Umayyad World
The Umayyad World

Author: Andrew Marsham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1317430042

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The Umayyad World encompasses the archaeology, history, art, and architecture of the Umayyad era (644–750 CE). This era was formative both for world history and for the history of Islam. Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and the Qur’an, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary approaches combining literary sources and material evidence. Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists, and researchers interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context, and infl uence on the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume.

The Ethics of Immigration
The Ethics of Immigration

Author: Joseph Carens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199933839

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Eminent political theorist Joseph Carens tests the limits of democratic theory in the realm of immigration, arguing that any acceptable immigration policy must be based on moral principles even if it conflicts with the will of the majority.