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.
- ISBN10 1571813772
- ISBN13 9781571813770
- Publish Date 16 October 2003 (first published 1 September 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/HoerderHistorical