We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe

by Diana Mishkova (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789639776289
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Publication date:	01/10/2009
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Introduction

Part I. Ethnos and Citizens: Versions of Cultural-Political Construction of Identity

Alexander Vezenkov, Reconciliation of the Spirits and Fusion of the Interests: "Ottomanism" as an Identity Politics

Kinga-Koretta Sata, The People Incorporated: Constructions of the Nation in Transylvanian Romanian Liberalism, 1838—1848
Tchavdar 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-Century

Part II. Nationalization of Sciences and the Definitions of the Folk
Dessislava 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 Bulgaria
Călin Cotoi, Imagining of National Spaces in Interwar Romania. The Emergence of Geopolitics

Part III. The Canon-Builders

Bojan Aleksov, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History
Artan Puto, "Ottoman" or "Western": Two Version of Albanianness at the turn of the 19th century
Bülent Bilmez, A Contested Nation-Builder: Þemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) and the Construction of Albanian and Turkish Nations