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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria

By: Maria N. Todorova

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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria

By: Maria N. Todorova

This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population registers and other sources, and the impact of these findings on theoretical syntheses of the European family pattern. On most features, such as population structure, marriage and nuptiality, birth and fertility, death and mortality rates, family and household size and structure, as well as inheritance patterns, the Balkans show an enormous deal of internal variety. This variability is put in a comparative European context by matching the quantifiable results with comparable figures and patterns in other parts of Europe. The second section of the book is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the zadruga, the complex, collective, joint or extended family in the Balkans. Finally, the book considers ideology and mythology and the ways it has adversely affected scholarship on the family, and broadly on population history.

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Central European University Press

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6155053863

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Scaling the Balkans

Essays on Eastern European Entanglements

By: Maria N. Todorova

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Scaling the Balkans

Essays on Eastern European Entanglements

By: Maria N. Todorova

Scaling the Balkans puts in conversation several fields that have been traditionally treated as discrete: Balkan studies, Ottoman studies, East European studies, and Habsburg and Russian studies. By looking at the complex interrelationship between countries and regions, demonstrating how different perspectives and different methodological approaches inflect interpretations and conclusions, it insists on the heuristic value of scales. The volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays, dealing with issues of modernism, backwardness, historical legacy, balkanism, post-colonialism and orientalism, nationalism, identity and alterity, society-and nation-building, historical demography and social structure, socialism and communism in memory, and historiography.

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BRILL

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9004382305

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Bones of Contention

The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero

By: Maria N. Todorova

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Bones of Contention

The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero

By: Maria N. Todorova

This book is about documenting and analyzing the living archive around the figure of Vasil Levski (1837–1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but constantly adding surprising new forms. The monograph is a historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Levski. By exploring the vicissitudes of his heroicization, glorification, appropriations, reinterpretation, commemoration and, finally, canonization, it seeks to engage in several broad theoretical debates, and provide the basis for subsequent regional comparative research. The analysis of Levski's consecutive and simultaneous appropriations by different social platforms, political parties, secular and religious institutions, ideologies, professional groups, and individuals, demonstrates how boundaries within the framework of the nation are negotiated around accepted national symbols.

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Central European University Press

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6155211639

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9786155211638

Bones of Contention

The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero

By: Marii?a Nikolaeva Todorova

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Bones of Contention

The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero

By: Marii?a Nikolaeva Todorova

A historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The main title refers to the "thick description" of the reburial controversy during the final phase of communist Bulgaria, which centered on the search for Levski's bones. The book gives a specific understanding also of the relationship between nationalism and religion in the post-communist period, by analyzing the recent canonization of Levski. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but with the constant addition of surprising new forms they take. At another level, the book engages in a variety of general theoretical questions. It offers insights into the problems of history and memory: the question of public, social or collective memory; the nature of national memory in comparison to other types of memory; the variability of memory over time and social space; alternative memories; memory's techniques like commemorations, the mechanism of creating and transmitting memory.

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9639776246

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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria

By: Maria N. Todorova

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Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria

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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Scaling the Balkans

Scaling the Balkans

Bones of Contention

Bones of Contention

Bones of Contention

Bones of Contention

Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

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