Author
Antonova-Goleva, Boriana(Editor),Masheva, Ivelina(Editor)
Publication Date
2024
Publication Place
Paderborn -
Ferdinand Schöningh
Subject
History. | Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
Type
Book
Language
English
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
320
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.
Library
American Research Center in Egypt - ARCE
Library Asset ID
NA105
Record ID
58898
Library Location
ARCE Library
Date
2024
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index. | The volume offers a new perspective towards the transformation of Southeast Europe through the lens of persons and personalities as agents of modernization. Exploring the experience of modernity through the lens of the personal allows for approaching transformation as a result of a specific conjuncture of ideas, influences, and beliefs. The book chapters address topics as diverse as political and institutional development, social and cultural transformations, economic and legal changes, and technological innovations in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans. By doing so, the collection approaches the advent of modernity in Southeast Europe from various and even contrasting standpoints, highlighting the multiplicity of actors as well as the entanglement and interconnectedness of topics, arenas and scales of the modernization process.
Sample Text
The volume offers a new perspective towards the transformation of Southeast Europe through the lens of persons and personalities as agents of modernization. Exploring the experience of modernity through the lens of the personal allows for approaching transformation as a result of a specific conjuncture of ideas, influences, and beliefs. The book chapters address topics as diverse as political and institutional development, social and cultural transformations, economic and legal changes, and technological innovations in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans. By doing so, the collection approaches the advent of modernity in Southeast Europe from various and even contrasting standpoints, highlighting the multiplicity of actors as well as the entanglement and interconnectedness of topics, arenas and scales of the modernization process.
Seri
Balkan Studies Library ;35.Schöningh and Fink Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
