1st Edition
Imagined Empires Tracing Imperial Nationalism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
By Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Copyright 2021
316 Pages
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Central European University Press
The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek “Great Idea” and the Serbian “Načertaniye”). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the... Read more
Introduction, PART I. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRES, PART II. THE BALKAN EMPIRES, PART III. EASTERN SLAVIC EMPIRES, PART IV. OTTOMAN UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Dimitris Stamatopoulos is Associate Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
