{"product_id":"imagining-the-balkans-paperback","title":"Imagining the Balkans - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Todorova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented\" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, \u003cem\u003eEurope\u003c\/em\u003e. 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, \u003cem\u003eImagining the Balkans\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaria 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 \u003cem\u003eImagining the Balkans\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Todorova\u003c\/strong\u003e is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753952215328,"sku":"9780195387865","price":80.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/45d7ff23b566f53ff9892ad822fc4421.webp?v=1780030184","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imagining-the-balkans-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}