We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
edited by Diana Mishkova
Central European University Press, 2009 Cloth: 978-963-9776-28-9 | eISBN: 978-615-5211-66-9 (PDF) Library of Congress Classification DR43.W42 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 949.6038
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century south-eastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Diana Mishkova is Associate Professor in Modern History of Southeastern Europe, Senior Researcher and Director of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IntroductionPart I. Ethnos and Citizens: Versions of Cultural-Political Construction of IdentityAlexander Vezenkov, Reconciliation of the Spirits and Fusion of the Interests: “Ottomanism” as an Identity PoliticsKinga-Koretta Sata, The People Incorporated: Constructions of the Nation in Transylvanian Romanian Liberalism, 1838—1848Tchavdar Marinov, “We, the Macedonians”: The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878-1912)Balázs Trencsényi, History and Character: Visions of National Peculiarity in the Romanian Political Discourse of the Nineteenth-CenturyPart II. Nationalization of Sciences and the Definitions of the FolkDessislava Lilova, Barbarians, Civilized People and Bulgarians: Definition of Identity in Textbooks and the Press (1830-1878)Levente Szabó, Narrating ’the People’ and ’Disciplining’ the Folk: the Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1870-1900)Stefan Detchev, Who are the Bulgarians? “Race”, Science and Politics in Fin-de-Siècle BulgariaCălin Cotoi, Imagining of National Spaces in Interwar Romania. The Emergence of GeopoliticsPart III. The Canon-BuildersBojan Aleksov, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and HistoryArtan Puto, “Ottoman” or “Western”: Two Version of Albanianness at the turn of the 19th centuryBülent Bilmez, A Contested Nation-Builder: Þemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) and the Construction of Albanian and Turkish Nations
