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Scaling the Balkans

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Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. B...
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  • 20 September 2018
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Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.
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Price: $261.00
Pages: 674
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Balkan Studies Library
Publication Date: 20 September 2018
ISBN: 9789004358898
Format: Hardcover
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"This anthology will be of interest to those who want to follow in the footsteps laid by Todorova in Imagining the Balkans, but it will also be an asset to teachers, as the volume includes a number of key texts that form an excellent basis for lectures and seminars. Finally, all those who try to protect themselves in their own work from essentializing their image of the Balkans should reach for this volume to find sufficient information for the development and expansion of self-immunization strategies."

Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68) "Dieser Sammelband wird für jene interessant sein, die die von Todorova in Imagining the Balkans gelegten Spuren weiterverfolgen wollen, er wird aber auch für Lehrende eine Bereicherung sein, da der Band eine Reihe von Schlüsseltexten umfasst, die als Grundlage für Vorlesungen und Seminare hervorragend zu verwenden sind, darunter auch die beiden hier näher besprochenen. Schließlich sollten auch all jene zu diesem Band greifen, die sich in ihren eigenen Arbeiten vor Essentialisierungen ihres Balkanbildes zu schützen versuchen. Sie werden in dem beinahe 700 Seiten umfassenden Band ausreichend Hinweise für den Auf- und Ausbau von Selbstimmunisierungsstrategien vorfinden."

Karl Kaser, Graz, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (JGO 68)
Maria Todorova, PhD (1977) is the Gutgsell Professor of History and CAS Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of numerous monographs, articles and edited volumes, including Imagining the Balkans (1997, 2009, translated in 14 languages).