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History of Eastern Europe --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkans --- --Ontologie --- --XVIIIe-XXe s., --- Historiographie --- --Balkan Peninsula --- Historiography --- 949.7 --- Geschiedenis van de Balkanlanden --- -Balkan States --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- -Historiography --- 949.7 Geschiedenis van de Balkanlanden --- Balkan States --- Historiography. --- Balkan Peninsula - Historiography. --- Ontologie --- XVIIIe-XXe s., 1701-2000 --- Balkan Peninsula - Historiography

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'Imagining the Balkans' examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans.

Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- History. --- Historiography. --- History --- Foreign public opinion.

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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"--

Socialism --- Socialism --- Socialism. --- History --- History --- 1800-1999. --- Eastern Europe.

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Drawing inspiration from the work of Maria Todorova, Re-Imagining the Balkans displays the breadth of Balkan Studies today in twenty-nine chapters authored by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars. The volume seeks to address how to incorporate the regions of East and Southeast Europe into broader scholarly trends and epistemological currents, while retaining local and regional expertise. The contributions include new research on historical legacies, (geo)politics, generations, memory, and cultural transfers, fresh methodological and historiographical interventions, and novel pedagogical insights. Collectively, the authors display cutting-edge knowledge, orient the general reader in the state of the field, and demonstrate the importance of Southeast Europe for the study of European, transnational, and global history.

Balkan Peninsula --- Study and teaching. --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions.