We, the People

We, the People

Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe

  • Autor: Mishkova, Diana
  • Editor: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9789639776289
  • eISBN Pdf: 9786155211669
  • Lloc de publicació:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Any de publicació digital: 2009
  • Mes: Gener
  • Pàgines: 393
  • DDC: 949.6/038
  • Idioma: Anglés
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.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • 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)
  • 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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