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Paths Not Taken: Imperial Legacies and Diasporic Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

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Transnational patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850: stammering the nation. By KonstantinaZanou. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 248. ISBN 9780198788706.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2021

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Konstantina Zanou's Transnational patriotism is a thought-provoking book, which offers a multi-faceted perspective on its subject that brings together scholarship on nationalism and diasporas with modern Greek and Italian intellectual history. Written in lively and accessible language and based on thorough research, it makes the reader rethink some of the major dilemmas of our own time while still remaining true to the perspectives of its protagonists. To take but the most salient example, the word ‘patriotism’, which features prominently in the book's title, has dominated public debate in Britain in recent years, as so-called ‘Brexit patriotism’ has become a fashion statement.

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Roundtable: Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850
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The Historical Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 830 - 833
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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