Imagined Empires : Tracing Imperial Nationalism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe / edited by Dimitris Stamatopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stamatopoulos, Dēmētrios, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and state.

Politics and government.

Nationalism.

National characteristics, Balkan.

Imperialism.

Ethnic relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Religion and state--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Turkey.

Balkan Peninsula.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government.

Balkan Peninsula--Foreign relations--History.

Balkan Peninsula--Ethnic relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I The Ottoman Empires

Prelates Weeping on Demand, Prelates Nationalists, Prelates Janissaries: Instrumentalist Discourses and Power Entanglements of the Christian Orthodox Clerical Elites in the Late Ottoman Empire

Hellenizing the Empire Through Historiography: Pavlos Karolidis and Greek Historical Writing in the Late Ottoman Empire

International Crisis and Empire: Muslim and Jewish Solidarity with the Ottoman Imperial Ideal in the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897

Part II The Balkan Empires

Dreaming of an Empire: Discourse Analysis of Serbian Poetry at the Beginning of the 20th Century

An Attractive Enemy: The Conquest of Constantinople in Bulgarian Imagery

“Turkish Illyrians” or Bulgarians/Serbs? Ottoman South Slavs Within the Croatian and Bulgarian National Models (1830s–1840s)

Part III Eastern Slavic Empires

Russia in Serbian and Bulgarian National Mythologies Until the First World War

Russian View on Balkan Nationalism (1878–1914)

Imagining the Third Rome and the New Jerusalem in the 16th–18th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Part IV Ottoman Utopias and Dystopias

Balkan Nationalisms Against the Oriental Empire: Balkan National Poetry and the Disavowal of a Literary System

Differing Perceptions of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Ethnic Narrative of the Revival

Against the Imperial Past: The Perception of the Turk and the Greek “Enemy” in the Albanian National Identity-Building Process

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72016-1

963-386-178-0

9781003720164

OCLC:

1257075870