We, the people : : politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe / / edited by Diana Mishkova.

• TeilnehmendeR: Mishkova, Diana, 1958-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions.

Table of Contents

Ethnos and citizens : versions of cultural-political construction of identity -- Reconciliation of the spirits and fusion of the interests : "Ottomanism" as an identity politics / Alexander Vezenkov -- The people incorporated : constructions of the nation in Transylvanian Romanian liberalism, 1838-1848 / Kinga-Koretta Sata -- We, the Macedonians : the paths of Macedonian supra-nationalism (1878-1912) / Tchavdar Marinov -- History and character : visions of national peculiarity in the Romanian political discourse of the 19th century / Balazs Trencsenyi -- Nationalization of sciences and the definitions of the folk -- Barbarians, civilized people and Bulgarians : definition of identity in textbooks and the press (1830-1878) / Desislava Lilova -- Narrating "the people" and "disciplining" the folk : the constitution of the Hungarian ethnographic discipline and the touristic movements (1870-1900) / Levente T. Szabo -- Who are the Bulgarians? : "race," science and politics in fin-de-siecle Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev -- The canon-builders -- Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and the Serbian identity between poetry and history / Bojan Aleksov -- Faik Konitza, the modernizer of the Albanian language and nation / Artan Puto -- Shemseddin Sami Frasheri (1850-1904) : contributing to the construction of Albanian and Turkish identities / Bulent Bilmez.