Scaling the Balkans, Essays in National, Transnational and Conceptual History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maria N. Todorova

Series:

Balkan Studies Library 24.

Balkan studies library ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Bulgaria.

Balkan Peninsula--Historiography.

Balkan Peninsula.

Balkan Peninsula--Relations.

Bulgaria--Historiography.

Bulgaria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (683 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.

Summary:

Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page / Maria Todorova

Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps / Maria Todorova

Introduction / Maria Todorova

Concepts / Maria Todorova

Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy / Maria Todorova

The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism / Maria Todorova

Modernism / Maria Todorova

Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East / Maria Todorova

Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism / Maria Todorova

Balkan / Maria Todorova

Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View / Maria Todorova

The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention / Maria Todorova

The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention / Maria Todorova

Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid / Maria Todorova

Nationalism, Identity and Alterity / Maria Todorova

Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category?* / Maria Todorova

Is “the Other” a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region / Maria Todorova

Isn’t Central Europe Dead? / Maria Todorova

What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the Balkans Have a Regional Identity? / Maria Todorova

Structures, Processes and Events / Maria Todorova

Demography and Social Structure / Maria Todorova

European Population History: the Balkans / Maria Todorova

Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern / Maria Todorova

On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: The Balkans within the European Pattern / Maria Todorova

Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women’s Issues, Feminist Issues / Maria Todorova

Nation- and Society-Building / Maria Todorova

The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism / Maria Todorova

Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth Century / Maria Todorova

Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims / Maria Todorova

Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians / Maria Todorova

Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria / Maria Todorova

Historiography and Memory / Maria Todorova

East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems / Maria Todorova

The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography / Maria Todorova

Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film / Maria Todorova

The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence / Maria Todorova

Socialism and Communism in Memory / Maria Todorova

Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe / Maria Todorova

1917 in the Balkans: Divergent “Horizons of Expectation” / Maria Todorova

Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski’s Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria / Maria Todorova

Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire / Maria Todorova

Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories / Maria Todorova.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-38230-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004382305 DOI