European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans

Nationalism, Violence and Empire in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4623-4 (ISBN)

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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

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.

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
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Erscheinungsdatum	15.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Ottoman Empire and the World
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7556-4623-1 / 0755646231
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4623-4 / 9780755646234
Zustand	Neuware