“Europe (in Theory) is a well-written, yet challenging read well worth the effort.” — Craig Borowiak, Political Theory
“By messily revealing the messy histories that failed and succeeded in leaving their trace on the idea of Europe, this book reminds readers that one person’s margin is another’s metropole, that from Gibraltar to Shanghai there lurks the perpetual potential for the kind of visible seesawing that created Istanbul/Constantinople. Roberto Dainotto is not about to become a European quietly.” — John Plotz, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
“Robert Dainotto’s Europe (in Theory) offers a thoughtful and highly readable contribution to the growing body of literature on European identity and Eurocentrism.” — Joshua Arthurs, History: Reviews of New Books
“Wide-ranging and thoughtful. . . . I enjoyed this thought-provoking book.” — Jeremy Black, Journal of European Studies
“Written in a lively style, Europe (in Theory) is fresh, innovative, and brings the most advanced post-colonial and historiographic positions into Italian studies and conversely suggests that an understanding of Italy’s complex past could enrich American cultural studies, Mediterranean area studies and the thorny issue of the relation of Islamic culture to Christian Europe.” — Peter Carravetta, Journal of Modern Italian Studies
“Remarkably lucid and accessible, Europe (in Theory) is a superb antidote to the ‘clash of civilizations’ mindset. It ought to be required reading in any course on imperialism and/or postcolonialism.” — Joseph A. Buttigieg, editor of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
“What does Europe look like when you look at it from Sicily? It looks very much like Europe seen from its ex-colonies. Roberto M. Dainotto has shifted the geography of understanding and made a signal contribution to an ‘epistemology of the South.’ Europe (in Theory) is a landmark. A neglected archive, like the work of Michele Amari, becomes the anchor for a de-colonial take on Eurocentrism from inside Europe itself.” — Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Idea of Latin America