| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) |
| Contents |
The Eastern crisis, Russia's "civilizing mission" in the Balkans, and the emergence of eastern Rumelia -- Repatriation, postwar reconstruction, and the limits of pluralism in eastern Rumelia -- An experiment in pluralistic governance : emigration and the emergence of national politics -- Anchoring unified Bulgaria on "Muslim" land -- Muslim land vs. Bulgarian labor : the cost of building a modern capitalist nation -- Land, nation, minority -- Debating community and citizenship |
| Summary |
"Focusing upon a region in Southern Bulgaria, a region that has been the crossroads between Europe and Asia for many centuries, this book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states. This is a region marked by shifting borders, competing Turkish and Bulgarian sovereignties, rival nationalisms, and migration. Problems such as these were ultimately responsible for the disintegration of the dynastic empires into nation-states. Land that had traditionally belonged to Muslims--individually or communally--became a symbolic and material resource for Bulgarian state building and was the terrain upon which rival Bulgarian and Turkish nationalisms developed in the wake of the dissolution of the late Ottoman Empire and the birth of early republican Turkey and the introduction of capitalism. By the outbreak of World War II, Turkish Muslims had become a polarized national minority. Their conflicting efforts to adapt to post-Ottoman Bulgaria brought attention to the increasingly limited availability of citizenship rights, not only to Turkish Muslims, but to Bulgarian Christians as well"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2017) |
| Subject |
Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History -- 19th century
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Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History -- 20th century
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Citizenship -- Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia -- History
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Christians -- Bulgaria -- Rumelia -- History
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Social change -- Bulgaria -- Rumelia -- History
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Nationalism -- Bulgaria -- History
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Nationalism -- Turkey -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Christians
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Citizenship
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Ethnic relations
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Muslims
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Nationalism
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Social change
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Eastern Rumelia -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Bulgaria -- Relations -- Turkey
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Turkey -- Relations -- Bulgaria
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Bulgaria
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Bulgaria -- Eastern Rumelia
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017024114 |
| ISBN |
9789633861622 |
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9633861624 |
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