1st Edition
Balkan Perspectives of Europe Between East and West
Introduction: Balkan Occidental Discourse or Balkan Counter-Orientalism
Eleonora Naxidou and Yura Konstantinova
Part I: What Is Europe?
1. Diverse Perceptions of Europe in the Newly Founded Greek State
Lina Louvi
2. Meeting Europe During a War: Perceptions of the French by Varna Residents During the Crimean War (1853–6)
Ivan Roussev
3. ‘Mixed Feelings’: Nineteenth-Century Balkan Intellectuals and the Tanzimat
Raymond Detrez
4. The West, the East, and the Balkans: Bulgarian Intellectuals of the Revival and the Image of Europe
Eleonora Naxidou
5. Between Imperial Legacy and European Identity: The Alchemy of Greek Perceptions of Europe
Stamatia Fotiadou
Part II: East vs West: The Two Sides of the Same Coin?
6. Images of Russia in the Greek World and Their European Horizon (Eighteenth Century)
Nikolas Pissis
7. Traces of American Protestant Missions in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans: Local Perceptions of the USA
Elmira Vassileva
8. Modelling Emotions: Bulgarian Perceptions of Russia
Yura Konstantinova
9. Postwar Realignment: Yugoslavia Seeks to Join Europe
Robert Niebuhr
10. (Step-)Mother Russia: Projections and Mental Maps of Russia in Serbia
Nenad Stefanov
Part III: Visual Encounters
11. Heritage and Civilizational Discourse: ‘Civilized Europe’ and ‘Antiquities’ in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Romania
Roxana Coman
12. ‘Grandma Europe’: Political Imaginary and Representations of Europe in Bulgarian Caricature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Dobrinka Parusheva
13. The Bulgarian Perception About Russia and the Fate of Russian Monuments in Bulgaria
Tina Georgieva
14. Americans Appeared in the Balkans: How They Were Imagined in the Movies from the Region?
Gergana Doncheva
Biography
Eleonora Naxidou is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe in the Department of History and Ethnology at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is the author of the book Europeanness in the Context of Bulgarian ‘Balkanness’: Lyuben Karavelov, Federalism, and the Greeks (2021; in Greek), and co-editor of several scholarly volumes.
Yura Konstantinova is Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has published extensively and been involved in numerous academic research projects on subjects including the history of modern Greece, Greek–Bulgarian relations, and international relations in Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
