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Imagining the Balkans
Maria Todorova
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Description for Imagining the Balkans
Paperback. Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in ... Read more
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195387865
SKU
V9780195387865
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99-15
About Maria Todorova
Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for Imagining the Balkans
Outstanding.
Misha Glenny, London Review of Books
Passionate, learned, entertaining, polemical, ambitious, courageous.
Slavic Review
Contains many brilliant insights and always displays the author's enormous erudition.
CHOICE
Todorova's book is a passionate, provocative, and necessary attempt to retrace the construction of a pejorative image of the Balkans.
Nicholas J. Miller, Journal of Interdisciplinary ... Read more
Misha Glenny, London Review of Books
Passionate, learned, entertaining, polemical, ambitious, courageous.
Slavic Review
Contains many brilliant insights and always displays the author's enormous erudition.
CHOICE
Todorova's book is a passionate, provocative, and necessary attempt to retrace the construction of a pejorative image of the Balkans.
Nicholas J. Miller, Journal of Interdisciplinary ... Read more