Imagining the Balkans
(Sprache: Englisch)
Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.
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Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Imagining the Balkans “
- Preface
- Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?
- Ch 1:: The Balkans: Nomen
- Ch 2:: "Balkans" as Self-designation
- Ch 3:: The Discovery of the Balkans
- Ch 4:: Patterns of Perception until 1900
- Ch 5:: From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification
- Ch 6:: Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe
- Ch 7:: The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?
- Conclusion
- Afterword to the Updated Edition
- Notes/ Bibliography/ Index
Autoren-Porträt von Maria N. Todorova
Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Maria N. Todorova
- 2010, updated edition, XI, 273 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0195387864
- ISBN-13: 9780195387865
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Imagining the Balkans “
"Outstanding."--Misha Glenny, London Review of Books"Passionate, learned, entertaining, polemical, ambitious, courageous."--Slavic Review"Contains many brilliant insights and always displays the author's enormous erudition."--CHOICE"Todorova's book is a passionate, provocative, and necessary attempt to retrace the construction of a pejorative image of the Balkans."--Nicholas J. Miller, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Full of challenging ideas, forcefully presented opinions, references for further reading, and enlightening observations."-Gale Stokes, H-Net"By far the best work of historiography on the region."- Tomislav Z. Longinovic, Lingua Franca
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