Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 /
Blumi, Isa,1969-author.
This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The search for a narrative of transition -- Retrieving historical process : transitions to a modern story -- Repositioning agency and the forces of change -- The compromised empire : ethnicity and faith under state powers -- Governing exchange : boundaries and the struggle to define/confine -- Learning the wrong lesson : local challenges to educational reform.
This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state.
Social change
Nationalism
Imperialism
Regionalism
Educational change
Europe—History.
Ethnology—Middle East .
Russia—History.
Europe, Eastern—History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Economic history.
European History.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Modern History.
Social History.
Economic History.