The making of a nation in the Balkans : historiography of the Bulgarian revival / / by Roumen Daskalov.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Daskalov, Rumen.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 286 p.

Table of Contents

• The national interpretation
• Concepts of the (Bulgarian) nation
• Nationalism and romanticism
• The national and the spiritual (cultural) meanings
• The analogy with the renaissance
• The Bulgarian revival and the enlightenment
• Analogies with the reformation
• The Bulgarian revival and European development
• Modernity and modernization
• The transition from feudalism to capitalism
• Capitalism during the revival
• Ottoman feudalism
• The social (bourgeois) revolution and the agrarian thesis
• The economic and the national-spiritual interpretation
• Excursus on periodization
• The urban "estate" and social struggles in older historiography
• Bourgeoisie and notables in earlier Marxist controversies
• Toward rehabilitation
• The peasants
• The intelligentsia
• The class struggles between the social and national
• Vulgar Marxist sociologism and its abandoning
• Paisii as a problem
• Evolutionists and revolutionaries
• The hierarchy of national heroes : Rakovski, Karavelov, Levski, Botev : reappraisals and reshuffling
• The April uprising and the Russo-Turkish war
• The revolution
• Revisions and reappraisal
• Rightist visions of the Bulgarian revival
• The democratic image
• The battle of the Communists for the legacy of the revival.