Containing Balkan nationalism: imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856-1914
"Containing Balkan Nationalism highlights the efforts by ecclesiastics, publicists, and diplomats in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, and Bulgaria to develop and implement various plans to reconcile ethnic differences within existing religious and dynastic frameworks. Those arrangements were...
| Zusammenfassung: | "Containing Balkan Nationalism highlights the efforts by ecclesiastics, publicists, and diplomats in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, and Bulgaria to develop and implement various plans to reconcile ethnic differences within existing religious and dynastic frameworks. Those arrangements were often inspired by modern visions of a political and cultural union of Orthodox Slavs and Greeks"-- Chapter 1. Russian Messianism in the Christian East (1600s-1853) -- Chapter 2. Building an Ottoman Civic Nation: Secularization and Ethnicization of Christian Minority Institutions (1853-1860) -- Chapter 3. The Bulgarian Minority in Search of Ottoman and Orthodox Autonomous Institutions (1860-1870) -- Chapter 4. Reconciling Rival Ottoman Orthodox Churches (1870-1875) -- Chapter 5. Making Peace in Times of War (1875-1885) -- Chapter 6. Coping with State-sponsored Balkan Irredentism (1885-1914) -- Chapter 7. Russians and Muslim Slavs: Brothers or Infidels? (1856-1914) |
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| ISBN: | 0190276673 |