1st Edition
Muslim Land, Christian Labor Transforming Ottoman Imperial Subjects into Bulgarian National Citizens, c. 1878-1939
By Anna M. Mirkova
Copyright 2017
304 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Focusing upon a region in Southern Bulgaria, a region that has been the crossroads between Europe and Asia for many centuries, this book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states. This is a region marked by shifting borders, competing Turkish and Bulgarian sovereignties, rival nationalisms, and migration. Problems such as these were... Read more
List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations, Acknowledgements, List of Key Ottoman Turkish and Bulgarian Terms, Note on Names, Transliterations, and Dates, Introduction, Chapter One The Eastern Crisis, Russia’s “Civilizing Mission” in the Balkans, and the Emergence of Eastern Rumelia, Chapter Two Repatriation, Postwar Reconstruction, and the Limits of Pluralism in Eastern Rumelia, Chapter Three An Experiment in Pluralistic Governance: Emigration and the Emergence of National Politics, Chapter Four, Anchoring Unified Bulgaria on “Muslim” Land, Chapter Five, Muslim Land vs. Bulgarian Labor: The Cost of Building a Modern Capitalist Nation, Chapter Six Land, Nation, Minority, Chapter Seven, Debating Community and Citizenship, Conclusion, Select Bibliography, Index
Biography
Anna M. Mirkova is Assistant Professor of History at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
