Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States
Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s)
Biographical note
Evguenia Davidova, Ph.D (1998) in History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is Associate Professor of International Studies at Portland State University. She has published extensively on the nineteenth-century socio-economic history of the Ottoman Balkans.
Readership
Those interested in social and economic history of the late Ottoman Empire, Balkan history, urban history, nationalism, gender, and everyday life.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translations
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter One: The Fathers, 1780s-1820s
Chapter Two: The Sons, 1820s-1860s
Chapter Three: The Grandsons, 1860s-1890s
Chapter Four: Gendered Business: Merchants’ Ladies as Entrepreneurs
Chapter Five: Parallel Networks: Trade as Appropriation of Space and Multiple Uses of Time
Chapter Six: Tropes of Nationalism: Visible Markets, Invisible Ideologies
Chapter Seven: Everyday Practices, Sociability, and Public Imagery
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translations
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter One: The Fathers, 1780s-1820s
Chapter Two: The Sons, 1820s-1860s
Chapter Three: The Grandsons, 1860s-1890s
Chapter Four: Gendered Business: Merchants’ Ladies as Entrepreneurs
Chapter Five: Parallel Networks: Trade as Appropriation of Space and Multiple Uses of Time
Chapter Six: Tropes of Nationalism: Visible Markets, Invisible Ideologies
Chapter Seven: Everyday Practices, Sociability, and Public Imagery
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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