Maria Todorova (Gutgsell Professor o Gutgsell Professor of History

Imagining the Balkans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Updated Edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780195387865
• ISBN-10: 0195387864
• Artikelnr.: 26523839

Autorenporträt

Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: Balkanism and Orientalism: Are They Different
Categories?
* Ch 1:: The Balkans: Nomen
* Ch 2:: "Balkans" as Self-designation
* Ch 3:: The Discovery of the Balkans
* Ch 4:: Patterns of Perception until 1900
* Ch 5:: From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to Classification
* Ch 6:: Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth
of Central Europe
* Ch 7:: The Balkans: Realia-Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?
* Conclusion
* Afterword to the Updated Edition
* Notes/ Bibliography/ Index