European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans - Nationalism, Violence and Empire in the Long Nineteenth-Century

The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evolution traditionally seen by scholars as the effect of the Ottoman Empire's decline. As a result, the role played by the great European revolutions, wars and intellectual developments is often neglected. Rejecting these traditional Orientalist narratives, this work examines Balkan nationalist movements within their broader European historical contexts. Drawing on a range of unused archival research and ranging from the Napoleonic era to the Bolshevik Revolution, contributors variously consider the complex roles played by Europe's internal geo-political ruptures in forming the Balkan states, and demonstrate how the Balkan intelligentsia drew inspiration from, and interacted with, contemporary European thought. Shedding light onto the strong intellectual, political and military interconnections between the regions, this is essential reading for all those studying Balkan and European history, as well as anyone interested in the question of national identity.

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• Authors: Dimitris Stamatopoulos, Stamatopoulos Dimi
• Assisted by: Warren Dockter (Editor), Dimitris Stamatopoulos (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2020
• EAN: 9781788311045
• ISBN: 978-1-78831-104-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Ottoman Empire and the World; The Ottoman Empire and the World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, Nationalism, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Southeast Europe, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions