Blood ties
Subtitle: religion, violence, and the politics of nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1908
By: Ipek Yosmaoglu
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801479243; 9780801452260
Subjects: Macedonian question; Ethnic conflict; Political violence; Nationalism; Ethnic relations; History
Description: "The region that is today the Republic of Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents. In the final decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, however, the region was periodically racked by bitter conflict that was qualitatively different from previous outbreaks of violence. In Blood Ties, Ipek K. Yosmaoglu explains the origins of this shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social history of the Macedonian Question"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, and the great powers on the road to Mürzsteg; title: Education and the creation of nation space; title: Territoriality and its discontents; title: Fear of small margins; title: A leap of faith : disputes over sacred space; title: Logic and legitimacy in violence.