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Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 / by Isa Blumi.

By: Blumı, Isa, 1969-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011. Description: xx, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230110182 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social change -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Nationalism -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Regionalism -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Educational change -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | HISTORY / Europe / Eastern | HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century | HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century | Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government | Balkan Peninsula -- Social conditions | Balkan Peninsula -- Ethnic relations | Balkan Peninsula -- Historiography | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918DDC classification: 949.6/038 LOC classification: DR38.2 | .B55 2011Other classification: HIS010010 | HIS037060 | HIS037070
Contents:
Introduction: 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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-242) and index.

Introduction: 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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.