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- ISBN
- 9780195387865
- Book Title
- Imagining the Balkans
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195387864
ISBN-13
9780195387865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71214631
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Imagining the Balkans
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Europe / Eastern
Features
Revised
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
6 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
"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, "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, "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, "Full of challenging ideas, forcefully presented opinions, references for further reading, and enlightening observations." --Gale Stokes, H-Net, "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, "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
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
949.6
Table Of Content
PrefaceIntroduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?1. The Balkans: Nomen2. "Balkans" as Self-designation3. The Discovery of the Balkans4. Patterns of Perception until 19005. From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification6. Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe7. The Balkans: Realia - Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?ConclusionAfterword to the Updated EditionNotes/ Bibliography/ Index
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe . Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans . The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history., "If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history., "If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history., 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.
LC Classification Number
DR43
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