Balkan transitions to modernity and nation-states : through the eyes of three generations of merchants (1780s-1890s) /

Balkan transitions to modernity and nation-states : through the eyes of three generations of merchants (1780s-1890s) / / by Evguenia Davidova.

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In contrast to research on elites or “history from below,” this study offers an approach that can be called “mesohistory” – a collective social biography of the Balkan merchants. In foregrounding the voices of traders, this study sheds fresh light on multiethnic networks of social actors navigating...

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Davidova, Evguenia.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Balkan studies library, v. 6
Balkan Studies Library 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (241 p.)
Notes:Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 6, 2012).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Fathers, 1780's–1820's
  • 2 The Sons, 1820's–1860's
  • 3 The Grandsons, 1860's–1890's
  • 4 Gendered Business: Merchant Ladies as Entrepreneurs
  • 5 Parallel Networks: Trade as Appropriation of Space and Multiple Uses of Time
  • 6 Tropes of Nationalisms: Visible Markets, Invisible Ideologies
  • 7 Everyday Practices, Sociability, and Public Imagery
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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