{"product_id":"american-mediterraneans-susan-gillman-9780226819648","title":"American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Gillman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226819647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226819648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023","brand":"Susan Gillman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057550389503,"sku":"9780226819648","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb7ccb13-a6d4-4a4d-8cbc-4d56ce017eac.jpg?v=1685047626","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-mediterraneans-susan-gillman-9780226819648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}