Empire and Nation in the City

Rusçuk from Ottoman Rule to Bulgarian Statehood

AvMehmet Çelik

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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To curb the influence of minority populations and "outside enemies," the Ottoman government implemented new and experimental Tanzimat reforms within the empire’s center and provincial regions. By the 1860s, the city of Rusçuk in present-day Bulgaria and capital of the Ottoman Danube province became a test case for this expansive reform movement within an urbanizing and contested peripheral landscape. In Empire and Nation in the City, Mehmet Çelik traces how the Danube province and Rusçuk, in particular, experienced a series of swift political transitions from a "modernized" Ottoman administration, to a Russian provisional government, and finally to a Bulgarian nation-state. Çelik examines the transformative effects of each political system, arguing that Bulgarian nationalism was not a uniform ideology, but a flexible and mutable one that engaged multiple loyalties—Bulgarian and Ottoman among them. To understand these competing loyalties, he explores the diverse religious and multiethnic makeup of Rusçuk and the multifaceted responses to imperial control, nationalist sympathies, and political movements. Rather than assess Ottoman rule and Bulgarian nationhood as separate periods, Çelik bridges these moments to understand the continuity of Ottoman reforms within a burgeoning Bulgarian nation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Syracuse University Press
ISBN:9780815612049

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Mehmet Çelik is a senior academic advisor and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history.

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"Masterfully takes us on a journey from the late Ottoman Balkans to the Balkans of the nation-states. Focusing on Rusçuk—one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities of the Danubian Balkans—Çelik shows how Ottoman imperial reform, a short-lived period of Russian rule, and the Bulgarian nation-state unfolded on the ground. Joining a growing body of new scholarship, Çelik foregrounds the transition between Ottoman and national regimes in all its complexity—its continuities and ruptures." —Ali Yaycioglu, author of Partners of the Empire "Çelik’s stimulating book draws on multilingual archival research to explore this urban center on the Danube as the vanguard of Ottoman reform." —Ugur Zekeriya Peçe, author of Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World "An important work for its innovative perspective, cross-disciplinary approach, and for introducing fresh archival material in several languages." —Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, author of The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. Reforming Criminal JusticePolice, Courts, and Prisons, 1839–1864 2. Provincial Administration Reforms of 1864 and Pragmatic Governance 3. Economic Modernization in the Tanzimat4. Bulgarian Nationalism and "Russian Liberation" 5. The Russian Provisional Government, February 8, 1878–April 28, 18796. Rusçuk Under Bulgarian Rule, 1879–1885 Conclusion Bibliography Index