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

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 p...

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