Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century : : Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space / / edited by Boriana Antonova-Goleva, Ivelina Masheva.

• Superior document: Balkan Studies Library ; 35
• TeilnehmendeR: Antonova-Goleva, Boriana,; Masheva, Ivelina,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan Studies Library ; 35.; Schöningh and Fink Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 pages)

The volume offers a new perspective towards the transformation of Southeast Europe through the lens of persons and personalities as agents of modernization. Exploring the experience of modernity through the lens of the personal allows for approaching transformation as a result of a specific conjuncture of ideas, influences, and beliefs. The book chapters address topics as diverse as political and institutional development, social and cultural transformations, economic and legal changes, and technological innovations in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans. By doing so, the collection approaches the advent of modernity in Southeast Europe from various and even contrasting standpoints, highlighting the multiplicity of actors as well as the entanglement and interconnectedness of topics, arenas and scales of the modernization process.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- Part I Introduction -- Agents of Modernization in Southeast Europe: State of the Art and the Contribution of the Present Volume -- Part II Foreign Agents of Institutional Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Urban Centres -- Michał Czajkowski/Sadık Pasha and His Ottoman Cossack Regiment as Agents of Modernization -- Ottoman Reformer, Foreign Expert, Political Commentator: Andreas David Mordtmann as Contributor to and Critic of Late Ottoman Modernization -- Prusyalı Emin Efendi (1813-1892): The Founding Director of the First Modern Law School (Mekteb-i Hukûk) in the Ottoman Empire -- Konstantin Jireček and the Outset of Modern Institutions in Bulgaria (1879-84) -- Part III Agents of Social and Cultural Modernization: Tradition, Modernity, and Nation-Building in Imperial and Post-Imperial Context -- Society, Technology, and Culture, or How the Balkans Meet Modernity -- A Thwarted Modernity? Ottoman Princes in the Nineteenth Century -- In Search of Modernity to the East: Bulgarian Students at Leading Educational Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Constantinople -- The Modern Influences in Healthcare and Hygiene and the Traditional Bulgarian Society in Salonica -- From Military Downfall to Rejuvenation: The Balkan Wars and the Vision of the Ottoman Nation's Rebirth -- Part IV Agents of Economic and Technological Modernization in the Ottoman Periphery -- Ottoman Merchants, Provincial Elites, and the Introduction of Modern Commercial Litigation in the Ottoman Balkans (1840s-50s) -- 'Public Benefit' Funds as a Result and an Instrument of Ottoman Мodernization -- Ottoman 'Infrastructure Governors' as Agents of Technological and Economic Modernization -- Foreign Technology and Local Agents of Modernization: The Rusçuk and Varna Railway Project as a Case Study for the Ottoman Modernization.

List of Selected Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables, Graphs and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.