American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race

The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists,...
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Author: Susan Gillman
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American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race by Gillman, Susan

American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race

Dhs. 261.99

American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race

Dhs. 261.99
Author: Susan Gillman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Susan Gillman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/20/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780226819662

About the Author
Gillman, Susan: - Susan Gillman is distinguished professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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