The historical practice of diversity transcultural interactions from the early modern Mediterranean to the postcolonial world
While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean world of the early modern period, this vol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ; Oxford
Berghahn Books
2003, ©2003
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | While multicultural composition of nations has become a catchword in public debates, few educators, not to speak of the general public, realize that cultural interaction was the rule throughout history. Starting with the Islam-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean world of the early modern period, this volume moves to the empires of the 18th and 19th centuries and the African Diaspora of the Black Atlantic. It ends with questioning assumptions about citizenship and underlying homogeneous "received" cultures through the analysis of the changes in various literatures. This volume clearly shows that the life-worlds of settled as well as migrant populations in the past were characterized by cultural change and exchange whether conflictual or peaceful. Societies reflected on such change in their literatures as well as in their concepts of citizenship. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 278 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78238-718-3 |