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Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
606 kr
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"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
311 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
"If the Balkans hadn''t existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova''s coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
276 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
"If the Balkans hadn''t existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova''s coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Balkan Identities
Nation and Memory
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
1 450 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. They refine our understanding of memory and identity in general and explore and assess the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities and national memories in the region. The essays in Balkan Identities grapple with three major problems: the construction of historical memory, sites of national memory, and the mobilization of national identities. While most essays focus on a single country (e.g. Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia), they are in dialogue with each other and share an opposition to rigid isolationist identities. Illuminating and challenging, Balkan Identities demonstrates the ever-changing nature of a troubled and culturally vibrant region.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvMaria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
458 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 591 kr
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Maria Todorova’s book is devoted to the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ‘structures of feeling’ that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
488 kr
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Maria Todorova''s book is devoted to the ''golden age'' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe''s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ''structures of feeling'' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
488 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Maria Todorova''s book is devoted to the ''golden age'' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe''s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ''structures of feeling'' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
468 kr
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Maria Todorova’s book is devoted to the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ‘structures of feeling’ that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvMaria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 916 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvZsuzsa Gille,Maria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
295 kr
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Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung
Ein Vergleich der Validität von Contingent Valuation, Conjoint- und Discrete Choice-Analyse
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Tyska, 2016
644 kr
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Die Arbeit untersuchtin drei experimentellen Studien mit induzierten Präferenzen, wie präziseContingent Valuation, Discrete Choice- und Conjoint Analyse unter verschiedenenBedingungen die Zahlungsbereitschaften für Umweltgüter erfassen. DieStudienergebnisse bieten Orientierung bei der Methodenwahl unterBerücksichtigung situationaler, motivationaler und persönlicher Faktoren. Studie1 befasst sich mit der Genauigkeit der o.g. Methoden unter dem Einflusshypothetischer und realer finanzieller Anreize und vergleicht die drei Methodenumfassend in Bezug auf die sog. hypothetische Verzerrung. Studie 2 widmet sichdem Einfluss von individuellen Geld- und Risikoeinstellungen auf dieGenauigkeit der ermittelten Zahlungsbereitschaften sowie auf die Höhe derhypothetischen Verzerrung in den Methoden. Im Zentrum von Studie 3 steht dieGenauigkeit der Methoden unter dem Einfluss von Anreizen für strategischesUnterschätzen und Überschätzen.
Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung
Ein Vergleich der Validität von Contingent Valuation, Conjoint- und Discrete Choice-Analyse
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2016
657 kr
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Die Arbeit untersuchtin drei experimentellen Studien mit induzierten Präferenzen, wie präziseContingent Valuation, Discrete Choice- und Conjoint Analyse unter verschiedenenBedingungen die Zahlungsbereitschaften für Umweltgüter erfassen. DieStudienergebnisse bieten Orientierung bei der Methodenwahl unterBerücksichtigung situationaler, motivationaler und persönlicher Faktoren. Studie1 befasst sich mit der Genauigkeit der o.g. Methoden unter dem Einflusshypothetischer und realer finanzieller Anreize und vergleicht die drei Methodenumfassend in Bezug auf die sog. hypothetische Verzerrung. Studie 2 widmet sichdem Einfluss von individuellen Geld- und Risikoeinstellungen auf dieGenauigkeit der ermittelten Zahlungsbereitschaften sowie auf die Höhe derhypothetischen Verzerrung in den Methoden. Im Zentrum von Studie 3 steht dieGenauigkeit der Methoden unter dem Einfluss von Anreizen für strategischesUnterschätzen und Überschätzen.
Der Balkan: Mission Possible
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Tyska
334 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Bones of Contention
The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
971 kr
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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.
Balkans
Mission Possible
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 759 kr
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In this incisive book, Maria Todorova revisits the region she famously theorized, asking not only what has changed in the past thirty years but whether the conceptual tools used to understand the Balkans still make sense. Treating the Balkans as a historically contingent and ultimately transient construct, Todorova traces their rise, transformations, and anticipated exhaustion, while confronting long-standing silences—especially around race. She then turns a critical eye to Balkan studies itself, examining its institutionalization and the allure, limits, and misapplications of post- and decolonial frameworks. The final section shifts scale dramatically, using brief biographies to reveal how individuals are shaped—and distorted—by scholarly and political frames. Subtle, unsparing, and deeply reflective, this book reopens the epistemological question of the Balkans at a moment when easy paradigms have become impossible to sustain.
Remembering Communism
Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe
AvMaria Todorova,Augusta Dimoum. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 717 kr
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Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past.The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of “the system”.
Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern
Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 759 kr
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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.
Bones of Contention
The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
2 798 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.

Maria Todorova – författare

Visar alla böcker från författaren Maria Todorova. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

19 produkter

Kategorier

19 produkter

Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
606 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
311 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
"If the Balkans hadn''t existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova''s coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Imagining the Balkans
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
276 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
"If the Balkans hadn''t existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse.Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova''s coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Balkan Identities
Nation and Memory
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
1 450 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. The contributors of Balkan Identities focus on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. They refine our understanding of memory and identity in general and explore and assess the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities and national memories in the region. The essays in Balkan Identities grapple with three major problems: the construction of historical memory, sites of national memory, and the mobilization of national identities. While most essays focus on a single country (e.g. Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia), they are in dialogue with each other and share an opposition to rigid isolationist identities. Illuminating and challenging, Balkan Identities demonstrates the ever-changing nature of a troubled and culturally vibrant region.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvMaria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
458 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 591 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Maria Todorova’s book is devoted to the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ‘structures of feeling’ that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
488 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Maria Todorova''s book is devoted to the ''golden age'' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe''s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ''structures of feeling'' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
488 kr
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Maria Todorova''s book is devoted to the ''golden age'' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe''s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ''structures of feeling'' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
468 kr
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Maria Todorova’s book is devoted to the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of ‘structures of feeling’ that inspired an exceptional group of individuals.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvMaria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 916 kr
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Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Post-communist Nostalgia
AvZsuzsa Gille,Maria Todorova
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
295 kr
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Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung
Ein Vergleich der Validität von Contingent Valuation, Conjoint- und Discrete Choice-Analyse
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Tyska, 2016
644 kr
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Die Arbeit untersuchtin drei experimentellen Studien mit induzierten Präferenzen, wie präziseContingent Valuation, Discrete Choice- und Conjoint Analyse unter verschiedenenBedingungen die Zahlungsbereitschaften für Umweltgüter erfassen. DieStudienergebnisse bieten Orientierung bei der Methodenwahl unterBerücksichtigung situationaler, motivationaler und persönlicher Faktoren. Studie1 befasst sich mit der Genauigkeit der o.g. Methoden unter dem Einflusshypothetischer und realer finanzieller Anreize und vergleicht die drei Methodenumfassend in Bezug auf die sog. hypothetische Verzerrung. Studie 2 widmet sichdem Einfluss von individuellen Geld- und Risikoeinstellungen auf dieGenauigkeit der ermittelten Zahlungsbereitschaften sowie auf die Höhe derhypothetischen Verzerrung in den Methoden. Im Zentrum von Studie 3 steht dieGenauigkeit der Methoden unter dem Einfluss von Anreizen für strategischesUnterschätzen und Überschätzen.
Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung
Ein Vergleich der Validität von Contingent Valuation, Conjoint- und Discrete Choice-Analyse
AvMaria Todorova
E-bok
PDF, Tyska, 2016
657 kr
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Die Arbeit untersuchtin drei experimentellen Studien mit induzierten Präferenzen, wie präziseContingent Valuation, Discrete Choice- und Conjoint Analyse unter verschiedenenBedingungen die Zahlungsbereitschaften für Umweltgüter erfassen. DieStudienergebnisse bieten Orientierung bei der Methodenwahl unterBerücksichtigung situationaler, motivationaler und persönlicher Faktoren. Studie1 befasst sich mit der Genauigkeit der o.g. Methoden unter dem Einflusshypothetischer und realer finanzieller Anreize und vergleicht die drei Methodenumfassend in Bezug auf die sog. hypothetische Verzerrung. Studie 2 widmet sichdem Einfluss von individuellen Geld- und Risikoeinstellungen auf dieGenauigkeit der ermittelten Zahlungsbereitschaften sowie auf die Höhe derhypothetischen Verzerrung in den Methoden. Im Zentrum von Studie 3 steht dieGenauigkeit der Methoden unter dem Einfluss von Anreizen für strategischesUnterschätzen und Überschätzen.
Der Balkan: Mission Possible
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Tyska
334 kr
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Bones of Contention
The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
AvMaria Todorova
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
971 kr
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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.
Balkans
Mission Possible
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 759 kr
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In this incisive book, Maria Todorova revisits the region she famously theorized, asking not only what has changed in the past thirty years but whether the conceptual tools used to understand the Balkans still make sense. Treating the Balkans as a historically contingent and ultimately transient construct, Todorova traces their rise, transformations, and anticipated exhaustion, while confronting long-standing silences—especially around race. She then turns a critical eye to Balkan studies itself, examining its institutionalization and the allure, limits, and misapplications of post- and decolonial frameworks. The final section shifts scale dramatically, using brief biographies to reveal how individuals are shaped—and distorted—by scholarly and political frames. Subtle, unsparing, and deeply reflective, this book reopens the epistemological question of the Balkans at a moment when easy paradigms have become impossible to sustain.
Remembering Communism
Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe
AvMaria Todorova,Augusta Dimoum. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
2 717 kr
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Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past.The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of “the system”.
Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern
Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 759 kr
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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.
Bones of Contention
The living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
AvMaria Todorova
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
2 798 kr
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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.

Maria Todorova – författare

Imagining the Balkans

Imagining the Balkans

Imagining the Balkans

Balkan Identities

Post-communist Nostalgia

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Post-communist Nostalgia

Post-communist Nostalgia

Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung

Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung

Der Balkan: Mission Possible

Bones of Contention

Balkans

Remembering Communism

Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Bones of Contention

Maria Todorova – författare

Imagining the Balkans

Imagining the Balkans

Imagining the Balkans

Balkan Identities

Post-communist Nostalgia

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

Post-communist Nostalgia

Post-communist Nostalgia

Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung

Die Güte verschiedener Befragungsmethoden zur Umweltbewertung

Der Balkan: Mission Possible

Bones of Contention

Balkans

Remembering Communism

Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern

Bones of Contention