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Zusatztext The book is a wonderful corrective to current historiographical understandings of Russia's role in the Balkans in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. Vovchenko uses an astonishing array of Russian Imperial, Ottoman, Bulgarian, Greek, and Serbian archives...Overall, the book is a useful addition to anyone putting together a reading list on nineteenth-century Balkan nationalism, or as Vovchenko himself suggests, those interested in supranational identity building, such as those forging (salvaging) a common European identity. Informationen zum Autor Denis Vovchenko is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. Klappentext Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the Bulgarian movement for recognition of the independent status of their national church from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the effect of tearing apart mixed Greek-Bulgarian-Serbian Orthodox communities. Zusammenfassung Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the Bulgarian movement for recognition of the independent status of their national church from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the effect of tearing apart mixed Greek-Bulgarian-Serbian Orthodox communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Russian Messianism in the Christian East (1600s-1853) Chapter 2. Building an Ottoman Civic Nation: Secularization and Ethnicization of Christian Minority Institutions (1853-1860) Chapter 3. The Bulgarian Minority in Search of Ottoman and Orthodox Autonomous Institutions (1860-1870) Chapter 4. Reconciling Rival Ottoman Orthodox Churches (1870-1875) Chapter 5. Making Peace in Times of War (1875-1885) Chapter 6. Coping with State-sponsored Balkan Irredentism (1885-1914) Chapter 7. Russians and Muslim Slavs: Brothers or Infidels? (1856-1914) Conclusion Index
