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The Mediterranean Napoleonic Crisis That Did Not End and Got Tongues Wagging

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Transnational patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850: stammering the nation. By KonstantinaZanou. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 248. ISBN 9780198788706.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2021

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Konstantina Zanou's Transnational patriotism in the Mediterranean starts with the raucous last carnival in Serenissima Venice in 1797 and ends with a café brawl in British Corfu in 1853. Let's just admit it: Zanou is not really drawn to settling subjects. Most of the people encapsulated in the pages of her book remembered the Venetian empire as it partied its way to demise, and almost all of them watched the Napoleonic wars throw their Ionian islands back and forth between Russian, French, British, Ottoman, and Habsburg imperial guardianship. This dizzying experience set her characters loose, leading most of them to disperse around the Mediterranean and much of Europe, looking for a way to make a Greek home out of these imperial fractures.

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Roundtable: Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800–1850
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The Historical Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 822 - 824
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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1 Gerwarth, Robert, The vanquished: why the First World War failed to end (New York, NY, 2016)Google Scholar.

2 Reill, Dominique Kirchner, Nationalists who feared the nation: Adriatic multi-nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice (Stanford, CA, 2012)Google Scholar.