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001 2011000523
003 DLC
005 20110707083427.0
008 110106s2011 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011000523
020 $a9780230110182 (hardback : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDR38.2$b.B55 2011
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084 $aHIS010010$aHIS037060$aHIS037070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBlumı, Isa,$d1969-
245 10 $aReinstating the Ottomans :$balternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 /$cby Isa Blumi.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$cc2011.
300 $axx, 250 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyond conventional methods of studying failed empires--the emergence of ethnonationalism, sharpened class/gendered sectarian differences--and restates the need to guard against unnecessary anachronisms that have infused post-World War I state-centric historiography. The issues specific to the western Balkans constituted in 1820-1912 a confluence of autonomous, ever-shifting polities that constantly interacted with each other and the larger world in varying degrees through the filter of an Ottoman administration. Unlike other areas of southeastern Europe or the Mediterranean, though, the western Balkans in much of the last quarter of the nineteenth century were characterized by a unique administrative, cultural, and economic setting that led to a distinctive regional experience of modernity. This is partly why it would take the many competing interests in the post-Ottoman years to finally establish respective administrative regimes; this "delayed" incorporation into the nation state left most of the regions inhabitants in a kind of developmental black hole with respect to ethnonational and sectarian claims"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-242) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The search for a narrative of transition -- Retrieving historical process : transitions to a modern story -- Repositioning agency and the forces of change -- The compromised empire : ethnicity and faith under state powers -- Governing exchange : boundaries and the struggle to define/confine -- Learning the wrong lesson : local challenges to educational reform.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aSocial change$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 0 $aNationalism$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 0 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
651 0 $aTurkey$xHistory$yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918.
650 0 $aRegionalism$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 0 $aEducational change$zBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Eastern$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 19th Century$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh.