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Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s)

Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s)

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EconomicsGeneral European History

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ISBN10: 9004236414
ISBN13: 9789004236417
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 12 2012
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In contrast to research on elites or history from below, this study offers an approach that can be called mesohistory - a collective social biography of the Balkan merchants. In foregrounding the voices of traders, this study sheds fresh light on multiethnic networks of social actors navigating multiple social, political, and economic systems - supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies. Personal accounts humanize features of these faceless socially mediating groups. Merchants' generation-specific perspectives on the economy, society, and state, both in times of war and peace, are analyzed against the backdrop of Balkan, Ottoman, and European history. The study captures a dialogue between primary and secondary sources and the major debates regarding nationalism, modernity, and the Ottoman legacy.

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General European History