Between Imagination and Effectiveness

Dr. Deborah Cuccia; Michael Gehler; Markus Koller

doi:10.5771/9783487423937

Summary

In 2023, the Institute of History at the Foundation University Hildesheim and the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum held the conference “Between Imagination and Effectiveness: Mediterranean Dimensions of European History”. It dealt with this sea as a space, with the location of its borders, whether its narratives came from within or from outside, which contemporary representations developed and their consequences. Furthermore, the resulting book analyses the influence of politics and its capacities to instrumentalise existing narratives in the context of an overall European identity. The final question is about, whether imperial concepts were able to shape Mediterranean structures.
With contributions by Walther-Ludwig Bernecker | Michael Broers | Deborah Cuccia | Alice Cunha | Thomas Demmelhuber | Carlos Sanz Díaz | Wolfram Drews | Jürgen Elvert | Michael Gehler | Thomas Gronier | Günther Hauser | Hans Heiss | Lukas Herrmann | Harald Kleinschmidt | Markus Koller | Nicola Labanca | Anil Can Özgün | Günther Pallaver | Lara Piccardo | Athanassios Pitsoulis | Ursula Prutsch | Michael Sommer | Benedikt Stuchtey

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-487-16648-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-487-42393-7
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag, Baden-Baden
Series: Historische Europa-Studien - Geschichte in Erfahrung, Gegenwart und Zukunft
Volume: 30
Language: English
Pages: 426
Product type: Edited Book

Preface No access Pages 1 - 6
Preface – Field of tensions, Field of rapprochement, Field of longing: The Mediterranean and its mark on European History No access Pages 7 - 22 Deborah Cuccia
Between Imagination and Effectiveness: Mediterranean Dimensions of European History No access Pages 23 - 48 Deborah Cuccia, Michael Gehler, Markus Koller
1. ‘Like Frogs around a Pond’. The Mediterranean in Classical Antiquity No access Pages 51 - 64 Michael Sommer
2. Muslims and Christians in the Medieval Mediterranean No access Pages 65 - 80 Wolfram Drews
3. The Downfall of Donatism and the Mediterranean’s Role as a Perceived Border Between Religious Spheres in Late Antiquity No access Pages 81 - 98 Lukas Herrmann
1. The Mediterranean: A Region of the First Napoleonic Empire No access Pages 101 - 118 Michael Broers
2. Reflections on Ursula Prutsch’s Intervention No access Pages 119 - 126 Martin Dinh Chien Do
3. Italian Empire and the Mediterranean before the First World War No access Pages 127 - 142 Nicola Labanca
4. Russia and the Mediterranean No access Pages 143 - 164 Lara Piccardo
1. Of Colonial Cities and Islands. The British Empire in the Mediterranean, 1800–1860s No access Pages 167 - 182 Benedikt Stuchtey
2. La Méditerranée et le Second Empire: lac presque français ou lit nuptial de l’Occident et de l’Orient? No access Pages 183 - 200 Thomas Gronier
3. More than just the Fourth Shore. Fascist Italy’s Geopolitical Interests in the Mediterranean No access Pages 201 - 214 Hans Heiss
4. Die spanischen Diktaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts und das Mittelmeer No access Pages 215 - 234 Walther L. Bernecker
1. The Mediterranean Media System: Historical Developments and Trends No access Pages 237 - 258 Günther Pallaver
2. Portuguese Foreign Policy and the Mediterranean Dimension No access Pages 259 - 274 Alice Cunha
3. The Mediterranean Turn of Democratic Spain,1976–2008: Navigating Shifting Tides No access Pages 275 - 294 Carlos Sanz Diaz
4. Greek Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitical Change No access Pages 295 - 322 Athanassios Pitsoulis
5. Between Soft, Hard and Smart Power.Turkey, the Mediterranean and Changing Foreign Policy No access Pages 323 - 344 Anil Can Özgün
1. Europe, the EU and the Sea No access Pages 347 - 354 Jürgen Elvert
2. The African Union and the Mediterranean No access Pages 355 - 384 Harald Kleinschmidt
3. NATO-European, U.S. and Chinese Policies in the Middle East No access Pages 385 - 402 Gunther Hauser
4. Arab Uprisings and the Reconfiguration of Order in the Middle East: Stressed Statehood and Eastern Temptations No access Pages 403 - 412 Thomas Demmelhuber
List of Contributors No access Pages 413 - 416
Index No access Pages 417 - 426
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