Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: American Mediterraneans A Study In Geography History And Race
Author(s): Gillman Professor Susan
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226819662
Pages: 208 Pages, 26 Halftones
Publication Date: 5/20/2022
Category: Education