Diplomats and Dreamers: The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History

Diplomats and Dreamers: The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History

by Mari A. Firkatian
ISBN-10:
0761840699
ISBN-13:
9780761840695
Pub. Date:
06/16/2008
Publisher:
University Press of America
ISBN-10:
0761840699
ISBN-13:
9780761840695
Pub. Date:
06/16/2008
Publisher:
University Press of America
Diplomats and Dreamers: The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History

Diplomats and Dreamers: The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History

by Mari A. Firkatian

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Overview

This book chronicles a family of diplomats who experienced the world in transition. Subjects of capricious fate, they forged a destiny as a family that overcame some of the most cataclysmic events of the twentieth century. Diplomats and Dreamers is a family biography that begins with the careers of the parents in 1887 and ends with the death of Nadejda Stancioff, their eldest child, in 1957. The context of historical developments in an uncertain period of European history highlights their lives. Members of the haute bourgeoisie, this accomplished family is noteworthy for an unflagging ability to survive and persist with success and grace.

Furthermore, this book addresses issues of gender by using the careers of the Stancioff women as exemplars of how a woman could develop her life in an atmosphere of strict gender divisions in labor. The Stancioff women's way of fitting into the mainstream of elite society is yet another model of a new generation of women who stepped beyond the narrow expectations of what their gender could achieve.

Based on unexplored, unpublished primary materials, this book enriches both women's history and European history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761840695
Publisher: University Press of America
Publication date: 06/16/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 362
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mari A. Firkatian (Ph.D. Indiana University) is Associate Professor at the University of Hartford, Hillyer College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 Part I: A Bulgarian Diplomat and a French Courtier Chapter 4 1 Mass Culture and Politics Chapter 5 2 The Young Family Chapter 6 3 Growing Up Chapter 7 4 Wars and More Wars Part 8 Part II: A Second Generation of Diplomats Chapter 9 5 Growing Up Fast: World War Chapter 10 6 The Disillusionments of Peacetime Chapter 11 7 International Kid to First Woman Diplomat Chapter 12 8 Admirable English Chapter 13 9 The End of and Era Chapter 14 Epilogue Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Map Chapter 17 Index Chapter 18 About the Author
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