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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813291503321

Autore

Todorova Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Titolo

Imagining the Balkans / / Maria Todorova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-771382-3

0-19-988909-0

1-282-05401-5

9786612054013

0-19-972838-0

Edizione

[Updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)

Disciplina

949.61015

Soggetti

Balkan Peninsula History

Balkan Peninsula Historiography

Balkan Peninsula History 19th century

Balkan Peninsula History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.