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Paperback American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race Book

ISBN: 0226819663

ISBN13: 9780226819662

American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race

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The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s.

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America's Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as "Our Mediterranean, Our Italy " Although "American Mediterranean"...

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