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Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912

Title: Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 / Isa Blumi.
Author: Blumi, Isa, 1969-
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description

xx, 250 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyond conventional methods of studying failed empires--the emergence of ethnonationalism, sharpened class/gendered sectarian differences--and restates the need to guard against unnecessary anachronisms that have infused post-World War I state-centric historiography. The issues specific to the western Balkans constituted in 1820-1912 a confluence of autonomous, ever-shifting polities that constantly interacted with each other and the larger world in varying degrees through the filter of an Ottoman administration. Unlike other areas of southeastern Europe or the Mediterranean, though, the western Balkans in much of the last quarter of the nineteenth century were characterized by a unique administrative, cultural, and economic setting that led to a distinctive regional experience of modernity. This is partly why it would take the many competing interests in the post-Ottoman years to finally establish respective administrative regimes; this "delayed" incorporation into the nation state left most of the regions inhabitants in a kind of developmental black hole with respect to ethnonational and sectarian claims"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The search for a narrative of transition -- Retrieving historical process : transitions to a modern story -- Repositioning agency and the forces of change -- The compromised empire : ethnicity and faith under state powers -- Governing exchange : boundaries and the struggle to define/confine -- Learning the wrong lesson : local challenges to educational reform.

Call Number

JFD 12-2341

ISBN

9780230110182 (hardback : alk. paper)
0230110185 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011000523

OCLC

YBP 2011000523

Author

Blumi, Isa, 1969-

Title

Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 / Isa Blumi.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 12-2341

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