CEU Press
Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire
Yura Konstantinova, Eleonora Naxidou
- Titel
- Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire
- Subtitel
- A Transnational History
- Prijs
- € 141,00 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789633867754
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- Hardback
- Aantal pagina's
- 340
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 25 - 09 - 2024
- Afmetingen
- 15.2 x 22.9 cm
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- Discipline
- Sociale en Politieke Wetenschappen
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Acknowledgements
List of maps, tables and illustrations
Introduction
Eleonora Naxidou, Yura Konstantinova
Part I: Internal networks and their trans-Balkan expansion
Commercial Networks in the Balkans (Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries)
Evguenia Davidova
Local Elites and Provincial Administration: Social Networks in the Province of Nish in the Early Tanzimat Era
Yonca Köksal
Trade Networks in the Danube Region in the 1840s: The Case of Apostolos Arsakis
Ștefan Petrescu
Tracing Ideological Networks in Newspapers: Alexander Battenberg’s Trip to Greece and the Balkan Federation (1883)
Stamatia Fotiadou
Albanian Orthodox Intellectuals and Dilemmas of Discourses: Networks, Mentalities and National Narratives (late 19th–early 20th centuries)
Elias G. Skoulidas
Revolutionary and Paramilitary Networks in European Turkey: Ideological and Political Counteractions and Interactions (1878–1908)
Zorka Parvanova
Part II: External networks and their intra-Balkan connections
Establishing Consular Networks in the Balkans: An Overview
George Koutzakiotis
Consular Jurisdiction and the Rise of Nation-States in the “Long” Nineteenth Century
Simeon A. Simeonov
A Balkan Network of Liberal Thinkers and their Federal Ideas (1860–1870)
Eleonora Naxidou
Propagating the Gospel among “Nominal Christians”: American Protestant Missionaries in the 19th-century Ottoman Balkans
Elmira Vassileva
Between Politics and Charity: Russian Material Aid to the Balkan Orthodox Churches (1830–1877)
Lora Gerd
Trade Networks and Political Influence: Russia and the Bulgarian Merchants
Yura Konstantinova
Conclusion
Eleonora Naxidou, Yura Konstantinova
List of Contributors
Index
Yura Konstantinova, Eleonora Naxidou
Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire
A Transnational History
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Observers and historians continue to marvel at the diversity and complexity of the Ottoman Empire. This book explores the significant and multifaceted role that Orthodox Christian networks played in the sultan’s realm from the 17th century until WWI. These multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-confessional formations contributed fundamentally to the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the Empire as well as to its gradual disintegration.
Bringing together scholars from most Balkan countries, Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire describes the variety of Orthodox Christian networks under Ottoman rule. The examples examined include commercial relations, intellectual networks, educational systems, religious dynamics, consular activities, and revolutionary movements, and involve Muslims and Christians, Romanians and Serbs, Bulgarians and Greeks, Albanians and Turks. The contributions show that the Christian populations and their elites were an integral part of Ottoman society.
The geographical spread of the formal and informal networks enriches our understanding of the terms ‘center’ and ‘periphery.’ They were either centered within the official Ottoman borders and extended their activities to other states and empires, or vice versa, located elsewhere, but also active in the Ottoman Empire. A common feature of these formations is their constant fluctuation, which enables a dynamic understanding of Ottoman history.
Auteurs
Yura Konstantinova
Yura Konstantinova is Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies with the Centre of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Eleonora Naxidou
Eleonora Naxidou is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of South-Eastern Europe at the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace.
