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Cities of Dust and Mud : Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jovanović, Milos, Author.
- Series:
- Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Balkan.
- Balkan literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia.Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as their bourgeois elites envisioned new, urban societies on the European borderlands.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Names
- Introduction
- Part One. Space
- One. Progress and Survival in Belgrade
- Two. Sofia, the Balkan Brussels
- Part Two. People
- Three. To Toil, Work, and Then
- Four. Neither Good nor Safe Subjects
- Part Three. Time
- Five. Refractions of Empire
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4681-5
- OCLC:
- 1586822726
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