In his seminal work on The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Fernand Braudel captured the double nature of islands in history: at once linked to other worlds and worlds unto themselves. The historiography involving the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean often sacrifices one of these dimensions. This article focuses on two case studies drawn from the island of Rhodes in the 1930s, then an Italian colony: a Muslim-Catholic marriage and a Greek-Jewish gambling circle. It suggests that to simultaneously grasp all of the possible spatial configurations of an island it is necessary to question the perspective of the historical actors themselves. Exploring the significance of insularity on ethnic identity formation in a colonial setting it suggests that this can only be done adopting a microhistorical perspective.
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