Rethinking the Mediterranean
My dissertation focuses on elites’ usage of regions and regional identities to alter public opinion in order to achieve their political preferences. Hence, my delight to discover Rethinking the Mediterranean in the Fulbright Library here in Morocco. It is a book that details how elites and scholars have thought (or more accurately—not thought) about the Mediterranean as a region and a concept over time.
It is a useful case study inasmuch as the Mediterranean is certainly a very fixed region in popular conceptions of the world today.