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We, the People : Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe /

We, the People : Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe / ed. by Diana Mishkova. - 1 online resource (392 p.)

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Towards a Framework for Studying the Politics of National Pecularity in the 19th Century -- Part I. Ethnos and Citizens: Versions of Cultural-Political Construction of Identity -- Reconciliation of the Spirits and Fusion of the Interests: “Ottomanism” as an Identity Politics -- The People Incorporated: Constructions of the Nation in Transylvanian Romanian Liberalism, 1838–1848 -- We, the Macedonians: The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878–1912) -- History and Character: Visions of National Peculiarity in the Romanian Political Discourse of the 19th Century -- Part II. Nationalization of Sciences and the Definitions of the Folk -- Barbarians, Civilized People and Bulgarians: Definition of Identity in Textbooks and the Press (1830–1878) -- Narrating “the People” and “Disciplining” the Folk: The Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1870–1900) -- Who are the Bulgarians? “Race,” Science and Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Bulgaria -- Part III. The Canon-Builders -- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History -- Faik Konitza, the Modernizer of the Albanian Language and Nation -- Shemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850–1904): Contributing to the Construction of Albanian and Turkish Identities -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9786155211669

10.1515/9786155211669 doi


POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism.

Balkan, Identity, Modernization, Nation-building, Nationalism, Political studies, South-east Europe.