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

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 aspira...

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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of 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