Mediterranean Frontiers

Author : Dimitar Bechev,Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857714671

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Mediterranean Frontiers by Dimitar Bechev,Kalypso Nicolaïdis Pdf

The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohesion. Yet they are also the sites of division, fragmentation and political conflict. This ambitious study encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Europe to examine the emergence of state borders and polarised identities in the Mediterranean. The authors look at the impact of political boundaries upon the region, along with pressures from European and economic integration, the resurgence of nationalism, and refugee and security concerns. The authors explore the politics of memory, and ask whether echoes from the imperial past - Ottoman and colonial - could provide the basis for conflict resolution, region-building and economic integration.

Author : Malcolm Anderson,Eberhard Bort
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1855674866

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The Frontiers of Europe by Malcolm Anderson,Eberhard Bort Pdf

The political geography of Europe and consequentially, the issues confronting the European Union have changed radically since 1989. Understanding the complex nature of international frontiers in Europe is essential in contemporary politics.

Author : Jose M. Escribano-Páez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000073690

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Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540 by Jose M. Escribano-Páez Pdf

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers. Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480–1539). This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish Empire’s frontiers as a vibrant political space where a multiplicity of figures interacted to shape power relations from below. Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles, local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in the empire’s liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy, the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions, and the mobilization of resources for war.

Author : Dionisius A. Agius,Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041888549

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Across the Mediterranean Frontiers by Dionisius A. Agius,Ian Richard Netton Pdf

Using insights derived from the works of the great annaliste historian Fernand Braudel and those of David Abulafia, this volume aims at presenting a fully-rounded picture of the medieval Islamic Mediterranean between the years 650 and 1450. It ranges from discussions on Islamic Spain and Sicily through essays on economic and cultural exchange to an exapination of Islamic and western politics and religious thought. It also surveys work and warfare in some of the most fascinating centuries of the medieval period and concludes with a profound assessment of the Islamic sources and their transmission. This is a magistral work which no historian of the Mediterranean will wih to be without.

Author : M. Anderson,E. Bort
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230507975

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Frontiers of the European Union by M. Anderson,E. Bort Pdf

Based on original research this book is a unique attempt at a general assessment of EU frontiers. Internal frontiers are losing some of their key functions but there are many responses to the new situation, as a case study of French frontiers abundantly illustrates. An examination of the EU external frontier shows that the EU is acquiring some state-like features, but the eastern frontier provides abundant evidence of the external frontier's complexity. The authors conclude that the increasing openness of national frontiers will continue, but their effective abolition, whether by European integration or through 'globalization', is improbable.

Author : James McDougall,Judith Scheele
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253001245

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Saharan Frontiers by James McDougall,Judith Scheele Pdf

The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.

Author : Daniel Power,Naomi Standen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349274390

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Frontiers in Question by Daniel Power,Naomi Standen Pdf

We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.

Author : Peregrine Horden,Nicholas Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000702996

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The Boundless Sea by Peregrine Horden,Nicholas Purcell Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry – cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors’ studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology. (CS1083).

Author : Alan V. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351884839

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The North-Eastern Frontiers of Medieval Europe by Alan V. Murray Pdf

By the mid-twelfth century the lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Finland to the frontiers of Poland, were Catholic Europe’s final frontier: a vast, undeveloped expanse of lowlands, forest and waters, inhabited by peoples belonging to the Finnic and Baltic language groups. In the course of the following three centuries, Finland, Estonia, Livonia and Prussia were incorporated into the Latin world through processes of conquest, Christianisation and settlement, and brought under the rule of Western monarchies and ecclesiastical institutions. Lithuania was left as the last pagan polity in Europe, yet able to accept Christianity on its own terms in 1386. The Western conquest of the Baltic lands advanced the frontier of Latin Christendom to that of the Russian Orthodox world, and had profound and long lasting effects on the institutions, society and culture of the region lasting into modern times. This volume presents 21 key studies (2 of them translated from German for the first time) on this crucial period in the development of North-Eastern Europe, dealing with crusade and conversion, the establishment of Western rule, settlement and society, and the development of towns, trade and the economy. It includes a classified bibliography of the main works published in Western languages since World War II together with an introduction by the editor.

Author : Colin Imber,Keiko Kiyotaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857712820

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume II by Colin Imber,Keiko Kiyotaki Pdf

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture of the past two decades. The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural aesthetics and the intellectual, cultural, technological and human interactions between the Ottoman world and Europe.

Author : Wen-Pei Sung,Jimmy C.M. Kao,Ran Chen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415661591

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Frontiers of Energy and Environmental Engineering by Wen-Pei Sung,Jimmy C.M. Kao,Ran Chen Pdf

Frontiers of Energy and Environmental Engineering brings together 192 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2012 International Conference on Frontiers of Energy and Environment Engineering, held in Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2012. The aim of the conference was to provide a platform for researchers, engineers and academics as well as industry professionals from all over the world to present their activities in the field of energy and environmental engineering as well as share research results. This proceedings volume promotes the development of the field of energy and environmental engineering, strengthening international academic cooperation and intercommunication, and encouraging the fruitful exchange of research ideas and results. The book provides a broad overview of the latest advances made in the field of energy and environmental engineering. Topics covered include energy efficiency and energy management, energy exploration and exploitation, power generation technologies, water pollution and protection, air pollution and protection and environmental engineering and management among others. This volume will be of interest to a global audience consisting of academic researchers, industry professionals and policy-makers active in the wide field of energy and environmental engineering.

Author : Steven Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526167077

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Frontier Narratives by Steven Hutchinson Pdf

This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and 'renegades' developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the 'others' thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

Author : David Abulafia,Nora Berend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918589

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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices by David Abulafia,Nora Berend Pdf

In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction?

Author : Vincenzo Artale,Nadia Lo Bue,Katrin Schroeder,Vassilis Zervakis
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889742400

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Impact of Deep Oceanic Processes on Circulation and Climate Variability: Examples from the Mediterranean Sea and the Global Ocean by Vincenzo Artale,Nadia Lo Bue,Katrin Schroeder,Vassilis Zervakis Pdf

Author : Daniëlle Slootjes,M. Peachin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004326750

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Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers by Daniëlle Slootjes,M. Peachin Pdf

Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.