E Diacronie Studi di Storia Contemporanea www.diacronie.it N. 23 | 3|2015 Mediterraneo cosmopolita: le relazioni culturali tra Turchia ed Europa The Italo-Turkish War, a struggle over the territory that the Italian occupiers later rechristened as Libya, became a heated ideological battleground for the emerging nationalisms of the Mediterranean. This paper delineates the contours of the geographical imaginaries of Italian and Ottoman imperial nationalisms and how participants and pundits of the conflict incorporated Libya into their national spaces.
Examining the writings and publications of influential nationalist leaders EnricoCorradini and Enver Pasha, it compares the idealization of territory and the material limits of national imaginaries in response to European colonialism, the hardening of borders, and the emergence of a world system of nation-states.Reimagining Mediterranean Spaces: Libya and the Italo-Turkish War, 1911-1912 Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea 2 HOBSBAWM, Eric, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, p. 14. Hobsbawm contends that «[t]he basic characteristic of the modern nation and everything connected with it is its modernity».
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