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Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape
This paper proposes that we can reimagine insular literatures and medieval islescapes as commodious seas of cultural and intellectual loci that span...
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Afterword
I never thought I might be called upon to Mediterraneanize the British Isles. Yet that is what these concluding reflections on connectivity must in a...
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Introduction: The Mediterranean, and the Port Cities in Modern Times
This chapter is intended to discuss first the three major approaches by Fernand Braudel, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, and David Abulafia to...
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Crises in Archaic and Classical Greece: The View of the Ancients
Archaic Greeks expressed variable opinions about divine justice, either assuring that gods protect the human order or complaining about the inability...
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The Four Seas of Medieval Mediterranean Intellectual History
In this essay I argue that it is both feasible and desirable to undertake the intellectual history of the medieval Mediterranean, despite its many...
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The ‘Scottish’ State and Foreignness, 1885–1914: The ‘Alien’ Concept, Problematisation and the Pursuit of the Common Good
By the turn of the twentieth century, newcomers from continental Europe had begun to be demonstrably ‘present’ in Scottish cities and had begun to...
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The redemptive power of the face: from Beatrice (Portinari) to Bérénice (Bejo)
The capacity of the human face to affect behavior in the observer is obvious and unquestioned, yet we lack a usable philosophy of facial expression....
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Perceptions of China in the Nineteenth Century
The chapter demonstrates the information on which New Zealand formed its perception of China in the nineteenth century. That was obtained mainly from...
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The Imaginary Society I: The Health System
In the second half of the Imaginary Republic, Agostini begins the formal description of the utopian society. The new topic changes the dynamics...
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Saiors’ Wardship, Maritime Ministry, and the Contest for New York City’s Sailortown, 1843–1915
Marginalized in Victorian-era New York City, merchant seamen confronted the city’s bourgeoisie with a shocking front of bluewater masculinity. In...
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THE 18th CENTURY AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
The 18th century is often spoken of as “the Enlightenment”. This is as informative and as misleading as identifying the 15th and 16th centuries with...
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The Highest Mountain in the World
The great Himalayan range stands like a wall separating the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia. The job of surveying these lofty mountains and...
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The Imaginary Society III: The Economic System
The Imaginary Republic concludes with a depiction of the utopia’s economic system. After the health system, the economy is the trait of the ideal...
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Colonial Reckoning: Population, Power, and Liberty in the French Atlantic, 1660–1787
This chapter examines how colonial censuses shaped early modern France and its empire. Technologies of enumeration, including the population census...
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The Police Raids on the Soho Bebop Clubs, 1947–1950
Between 1947 and 1950, the Soho bebop clubs were repeatedly raided by police and closed down. While on the surface the official version would state...
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A ‘Forcible Appeal to Humanity’: Sympathising with the Insane in the Romantic Age
The first decade of the nineteenth century was a watershed in the history of psychiatry in Britain. After a century of abortive calls for government...
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The Fishing Net and the Spider Web
In this chapter, Fogu analyzes the shape and longevity of the network dynamics that have characterized the “Phlegrean Middle Ground,” composed of...
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South of What? In Search of Italy’s Others
This chapter discusses the notion of Italy’s Southern Question and asks whether the meridione still represents Italy’s internal Other. The argument...
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Planetary Agglomeration
This chapter uses the concept of agglomeration to rethink and critique existing historical narratives of the urban. An agglomeration is any...
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Introduction: The Implementation of the New Global History in China
Global History with Chinese Characteristics is the result of reflection and observation upon the meaning of global history in China during the last...