Overview

This collective volume enhances the discourse on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. 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 ""Nacertaniye""). This book examines the interaction between these two aspirations. The book is comprised of twelve essays, with a balance between historical and literary contributions. The focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of ""imperial nationalisms"" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors unfold the relation between empire and nation state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.

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Author:   Stamatopoulos
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
ISBN:  

9789633861776

ISBN 10:   9633861772
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction Dimitris Stamatopoulos Part I: The Ottoman Empires 1. Prelates Weeping on Demand, Prelates Nationalists, Prelates Janissaries: Instrumentalist Discourses and Power Entanglements of the Christian Orthodox Clerical Elites in the Late Ottoman Empire Dimitris Stamatopoulos 2. Hellenizing the Empire through Historiography: Pavlos Karolidis and Greek Historical Writing in the Late Ottoman Empire Fujinami Nobuyoshi 3. International Crisis and Empire: Muslim and Jewish Solidarity with the Ottoman Imperial Ideal in the Greek-Ottoman War of 1897 Ariadni Moutafidou Part II: The Balkan Empires 4. Imaging Empire and the Collective Memory in Serbia, 1908–1914 Bogdan Trifunović 5. An Attractive Enemy: The Conquest of Constantinople in Bulgarian Imagery Nikolay Aretov 6. “Turkish Illyrians” or Bulgarians/Serbs? Ottoman South Slavs within the Croatian and Bulgarian National Models (1830s–1840s) Naoum Kaytchev Part III: Eastern Slavic Empires 7. Russia in Serbian and Bulgarian National Mythologies until the First World War Magdalena Żakowska 8. The Russian View on Balkan Nationalism (1878–1914) Lora Gerd 9. How to build a Holy City: “New Romes” and “New Jerusalems” in the 16th–18th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Liliya Berezhnaya Part IV: Ottoman Utopias and Dystopias 10. Balkan Nationalisms against the Oriental Empire: Balkan National Poetry and the Disavowal of a Literary System Maro Kalanztopoulou 11. Differing Perceptions of Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Ethnic Narrative of the Revival Eleonora Naxidou 12. Against the Imperial Past: The Perception of the Turk and Greek “Enemy” in the Albanian National Identity-building Process Konstantinos Giakoumis List of Contributors Index

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"""There is a lot to praise about this important scholarly volume – the international composition of the contributors; the wide geographic, temporal and thematic scope; the careful and balanced relationship between the thematic and geographic foci; the stimulating analytical framework and the intriguing cross-references and resonances throughout the volume. The volume’s powerful thematic statement – that hybridity characterizes the process of national formation in its political and cultural manifestations – provides a strong arc that consistently weaves the disparate contributions together."" -- Simeon Simeonov * Études balkaniques * ""Once revered and unquestioned, over the last decades, the way the past was imagined and narrated has been heavily criticized—first by Western-based scholars and lately by local students. The contributions of the edited volume Imagined Empires, besides bringing a fresh breeze to the study of nationalism in the Balkans, belong to this latter wave. Through a series of comparisons, the authors expose an open-ended space of connectivity and circulation of ideas and programs between the actors and promoters of the region’s nationalist movements. The collection of essays has some fascinating contributions that shed more light on the history of the Balkans as a region that, notwithstanding its specificities, its past can be explained as part of Europe and the Mediterranean."" https://doi.org/10.5325/hiperboreea.10.1.0119 -- Artan Hoxha * Hiperboreea *"

There is a lot to praise about this important scholarly volume - the international composition of the contributors; the wide geographic, temporal and thematic scope; the careful and balanced relationship between the thematic and geographic foci; the stimulating analytical framework and the intriguing cross-references and resonances throughout the volume. The volume's powerful thematic statement - that hybridity characterizes the process of national formation in its political and cultural manifestations - provides a strong arc that consistently weaves the disparate contributions together. -- Simeon Simeonov * Etudes balkaniques *

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Dimitris Stamatopoulos is Professor, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

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