Scaling the Balkans, : Essays in National, Transnational and Conceptual History.

• Superior document: Balkan studies library ; Volume 24
• Author: Maria N. Todorova
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan Studies Library 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (683 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page /; Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps /; Introduction /; Concepts /; Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy /; The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism /; Modernism /; Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East /; Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism /; Balkan /; Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View /; The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention /; The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention /; Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid /; Nationalism, Identity and Alterity /; Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category?* /; Is “the Other” a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region /; Isn’t Central Europe Dead? /; What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the Balkans Have a Regional Identity? /; Structures, Processes and Events /; Demography and Social Structure /; European Population History: the Balkans /; Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern /; On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: The Balkans within the European Pattern /; Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women’s Issues, Feminist Issues /; Nation- and Society-Building /; The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism /; Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth Century /; Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims /; Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians /; Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria /; Historiography and Memory /; East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems /; The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography /; Conversion to Islam as a Trope in Bulgarian Historiography, Fiction and Film /; The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky’s War Correspondence /; Socialism and Communism in Memory /; Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe /; 1917 in the Balkans: Divergent “Horizons of Expectation” /; Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski’s Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria /; Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire /; Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories /
• ISBN: 9004382305
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.