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Imagining the Balkans / Maria Todorova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Todorova, Marii︠a︡ Nikolaeva, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balkan Peninsula--Historiography.
- Balkan Peninsula.
- Balkan Peninsula--Foreign public opinion.
- Balkan Peninsula--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)
- Edition:
- Updated edition..
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Imagining the Balkans' examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?; 1. The Balkans: Nomen; 2. "Balkans" as Self-designation; 3. The Discovery of the Balkans; 4. Patterns of Perception until 1900; 5. From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification; 6. Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe; 7. The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?; Conclusion; Afterword to the Updated Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 1997.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9786612054013
- 9780197713822
- 0197713823
- 9780199889099
- 0199889090
- 9781282054011
- 1282054015
- 9780199728381
- 0199728380
- OCLC:
- 368265257
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb05061 hdl
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