Scaling the Balkans : Essays in National, Transnational and Conceptual History.
"Maria Todorova puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian empires. Applying different perspectives and different methodological approaches, it insists on the heuristic value of scales"--Provi...
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2018
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Illustrations, Tables, Figures and Maps; Introduction; Part 1 Concepts; Section 1 Modernism, Backwardness and Legacy; Chapter 1 The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism; Chapter 2 Modernism; Chapter 3 Historical Legacies between Europe and the Near East; Section 2 Balkanism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism; Chapter 4 Balkan; Chapter 5 Balkanism and Postcolonialism or On the Beauty of the Airplane View; Chapter 6 The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention; Chapter 7 The Balkans: from Invention to Intervention.
- Chapter 8 Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb KhalidSection 3 Nationalism, Identity and Alterity; Chapter 9 Is There Weak Nationalism and Is It a Useful Category?; Chapter 10 Is "the Other" a Useful Cross-cultural Concept? Some Thoughts on Its Implementation to the Balkan Region; Chapter 11 Isn't Central Europe Dead? Comments on Iver Neumann's "Forgetting the Central Europe of the 1980s"; Chapter 12 What Is or Is There a Balkan Culture, and Do or Should the Balkans Have a Regional Identity?
- Part 2 Structures, Processes and EventsSection 1 Demography and Social Structure; Chapter 13 European Population History: the Balkans; Chapter 14 Situating the Family of Ottoman Bulgaria within the European Pattern; Chapter 15 On the Epistemological Value of Family Models: the Balkans within the European Pattern; Chapter 16 Historical Tradition and Transformation in Bulgaria: Women's Issues, Feminist Issues; Section 2 Nation- and Society-Building; Chapter 17 The Course and Discourses of Bulgarian Nationalism.
- Chapter 18 Language as a Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian Case during the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 19 Identity (Trans)formation among Bulgarian Muslims; Chapter 20 Midhat Pasha and the Bulgarians; Chapter 21 Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria; Section 3 Historiography and Memory; Chapter 22 East European Studies in the US: Thematic and Methodological Problems; Chapter 23 The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography; Chapter 25 The Balkan Wars in Memory: the Carnegie Report and Trotsky's War Correspondence.
- Section 4 Socialism and Communism in MemoryChapter 26 Shared or Contested Heritage? Commemorating Socialism and Communism in Europe; Chapter 27 1917 in the Balkans: Divergent "Horizons of Expectation"; Chapter 28 Was there Civil Society and a Public Sphere under Socialism? The Debates around Vasil Levski's Alleged Reburial in Bulgaria; Chapter 29 Blowing Up the Past: the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as Lieu de Mémoire; Chapter 30 Remembering Communism: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories; Index.
