Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History

Contesting the Waters

James Pettifer, Miranda Vickers (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22613-5 (ISBN)

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Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet remains unconventional in its way of life, embodies the many contradictions of modern history and in exploring its roots James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region.

Drawing from oral testimonies and attentive to the construction of national histories, this book considers how the development of international borders, movement of people and role of national identities within imperial borderlands shaped Macedonia today. What is more, by centering the lakes and making use of an innovative environmental historical methodology, Pettifer and Vickers offer the first environmental history of this multi-ethnic borderland region shared by Greece, North Macedonia and Albania. The result is a nuanced and sophisticated transnational account of Macedonia from prehistory to the 21st century which will be essential reading for all Balkan scholars.

James Pettifer is Professor of Balkan History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous studies of modern Balkan history, including The Making of the Greece Crisis (2015), The Kosovo Liberation Army (2012) and The New Macedonian Question (2001). Alongside his academic work he has reported for the Times and the Wall Street Journal on Balkan issues. Miranda Vickers is an independent scholar based in the UK. She is the author of The Albanians: A Modern History (2011), The Albanian Question: Reshaping the Balkans (with James Pettifer, 2009) and Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity (also with James Pettifer, 2000).

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Preface
1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement
2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest
3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-1863
4. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-1914
5. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes
6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-1939
7. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-194
8. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa
9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-1990
10. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018
Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century Prespa
Appendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RM
Appendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village Toponyms
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	3 Maps
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-350-22613-0 / 1350226130
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22613-5 / 9781350226135
Zustand	Neuware