The Whispers of Cities

The Whispers of Cities
Author: John-Paul A. Ghobrial
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199672415

Explores interactions between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the experiences of the English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1692, showing how information flows between Istanbul, London, and Paris were rooted in the personal exchanges between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday encounters.

Imagining the Balkans

Imagining the Balkans
Author: Maria Todorova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195387864

'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.

Scaling the Balkans

Scaling the Balkans
Author: Maria N. Todorova
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004382305

Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.