1st Edition
We, the People Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe
Edited By Diana Mishkova
Copyright 2009
392 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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.
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 Calin Cotoi, Imagining of National Spaces in Interwar Romania. The Emergence of Geopolitics Part III. The Canon-Builders Bojan Aleksov, Jovan Jovanovic 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
Biography
Diana Mishkova is Associate Professor in Modern History of Southeastern Europe, Senior Researcher and Director of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
