Overview

The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evolution traditionally seen by scholars as the effect of the Ottoman Empire's decline. As a result, the role played by the great European revolutions, wars and intellectual developments is often neglected. Rejecting these traditional Orientalist narratives, this work examines Balkan nationalist movements within their broader European historical contexts. Drawing on a range of unused archival research and ranging from the Napoleonic era to the Bolshevik Revolution, contributors variously consider the complex roles played by Europe's internal geo-political ruptures in forming the Balkan states, and demonstrate how the Balkan intelligentsia drew inspiration from, and interacted with, contemporary European thought. Shedding light onto the strong intellectual, political and military interconnections between the regions, this is essential reading for all those studying Balkan and European history, as well as anyone interested in the question of national identity. Published in Association with the British Institute at Ankara

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Author:   Dimitris Stamatopoulos
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780755646234

ISBN 10:   0755646231
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   18 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi List of Contributors viii 1 War and Revolution: A Balkan Perspective – An Introduction Dimitris Stamatopoulos 2 Emulating Petrine Russia: Thick Mechanicism and the Foundations of Government in Istanbul after the Rebellion of 1730 B. Harun Küçük 3 New Horizons of Political Possibility: Greek Political Imagination after the Russo-Ottoman War of 1768–1774 Vasilis Molos 4 Military Reforms as a Diplomatic Bargaining Chip: French-Ottoman Relations at the End of the Eighteenth Century Antoaneta Atanasova 5 Echoes of Tumultuous Wars: Prosperity and Poverty of the Balkan Entrepreneurial Strata (1800s–1880s) Evguenia Davidova 6 The Final Phase of the Greek Revolution: Delimitation, Determination and Demarcation of the First Greek Borders in Ottoman Sources Dilek Özkan 7 Petko Voivoda: A Re-evaluation of Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Military History Assia Nakova 8 Uprisings, Revolutions and Wars: Visual Representations in the Bulgarian Illustrated Press at the End of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Dobrinka Parusheva 9 Under a Gun: Eugen Kumicic on the Austria-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Klara Volaric 10 War, Intellectuals and the Balkan States: French Intellectuals’ Perception of Serbia and Serbs in the Great War Aleksandra Kolakovic 11 The New Ottoman Conception of War, State and Society in the Prelude to the First World War Banu Turnaoglu 12 War, Revolution and Diplomacy: The October Revolution of 1917 and the Turkish Anatolian Resistance Movement, 1919–1922 Nikos Christofis Index

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Dimitris Stamatopoulos is Professor of Balkan and Late Ottoman History at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, USA and at the University of Freiburg, Germany as well as visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences socialies, France. He gained his PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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