Imagining the Balkans / Maria Todorova.
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TextSeries: [CRKN ebooks] | [MyiLibrary]Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.Edition: Updated edDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780199728381
- 0199728380
- 9780195387865
- 0195387864
- 9786612054013
- 6612054018
- Balkan Peninsula -- Historiography
- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
- Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 20th century
- Balkans -- Historiographie
- Balkans -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Balkans -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- HISTORY -- General
- Historiography
- Balkan Peninsula
- Balkan Peninsula
- Regions & Countries - Europe
- History & Archaeology
- 1800-1999
- 949.61015 22
- DR34 .T63 2009eb
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Previous edition: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-266) and index.
Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different Categories?; 1. The Balkans: Nomen; 2. "Balkans" as Self-designation; 3. The Discovery of the Balkans; 4. Patterns of Perception until 1900; 5. From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification; 6. Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of Central Europe; 7. The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?; Conclusion; Afterword to the Updated Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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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