Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912Springer, 2011 M05 9 - 272 pages 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. |
Contents
The Search for a Narrative of Transition
| 1 |
Transitionsto a Modern Story
| 31 |
2 Repositioning Agency and the Forces of Change
| 62 |
3 The Compromised
| 95 |
Boundaries andthe Struggle to DefineConfine People
| 125 |
Local Challenges toEducational Reform
| 151 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abdyl administrative Albanian ambitions AQSH areas Arnavutluk associations Bektashi Bulgarian bureaucratic century Christian church communities consul context created crucial cultural dated Scutari dynamic economic effendiyya elite emerged empire’s ethnic ethnonational European force Frashëri frontiers Gegë Greece Greek groups Gusi HHStA historians identity important Isa Boletini Işkodra Islam Ismail Qemali Istanbul Korçë Kosova large numbers larger Ottoman late Ottoman leaders linked locals loyalty Macedonia Malësi Malësorë Manakis Brothers Manastir Mehmet Mihal Grameno modern Montenegro Muslim nationalist newly Niš Orthodox Ottoman Balkans Ottoman Empire Ottoman officials Ottoman society Pasha Pashko Vasa period Photo policies political population post-Ottoman Prizren proved Qemali refugees regime region religious result role Russian Sami Sami Frashëri Sami’s scholars schools sectarian Serbia Serbs Shkodër Slav social state’s suggest sultan Tanzimat territories throughout tion Tosk Toskë Toskëri Toskërisht Turks ultimately vilâyet western Balkans Yanya Young Ottomans