French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)

Introduction / Patricia M.E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard -- Part I. Rethinking Mediterranean Maps (Maps to Rethink the Mediterranean) -- Revolutions de Constantinople : France and the Ottoman World in the Age of Revolutions / Ali Yaycioglu -- Barbary and Revolution : France and North Africa 1789-1798 / Ian Coller -- "There Is, in the Heart of Asia ... an Entirely French Population" : France,Mount Lebanon, and the Workings of Affective Empire in theMediterranean, circa 1830-1919 / Andrew Arsan -- Natural Disaster, Globalization, and Decolonization : The Case of the 1960 Agadir Earthquake / Spencer Segalla -- Part II. Shifting Frameworks of Migration (Migrations across the Mediterranean) -- The French Nation of Constantinople in the Eighteenth Century as Reflectedin the Saints Peter and Paul Parish Records, 1740-1800 / Edhem Eldem -- An Ottoman in Paris : A Tale of Mediterranean Coinage / Marc Aymes -- From Household to School Room : Women, Transnational Networks, and Education in North Africa and Beyond / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Europeans before Europe? : The Mediterranean Pre-History of European Integration and Exclusion / Mary Lewis -- Part III. Margins Remade (by the Mediterranean) -- Dreyfus in the Sahara : Jews, trans-Saharan Commerce, and Southern Algerian under French Colonial Rule / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- Moise Nahon and the Invention of the Modern Maghribi Jew / Susan Miller -- The Syphilitic Arab? : a Search for Civilization in Disease Etiology,Prostitution, and French Colonial Medicine / Ellen Amster -- From Auschwitz to Algeria : The Mediterranean Limits of the French Anti-Concentration Camp Movement, 1952-1959 / Emma Kuby. While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and controlled its ports. By contrast, for the peoples of its southern shores, the Mediterranean was polymorphous, shifting with the economic and seafaring exigencies of the moment. Nonetheless, by the nineteenth century the idea of a monolithic Mediterranean had either been absorbed by or imposed on the populations of the region. In French Mediterraneans editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard offer a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to think about the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. By reconceptualizing the Mediterranean, this volume illuminates the diversity of connections between places and polities that rarely fit models of nation-state allegiances or preordained geographies. Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to rethinking the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. La jaquette indique : "Collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean." Scope and content: "Collection of essays that explore the French presence in the 19th and 20th-century making of the Mediterranean"--Provided by publisher