Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-09995-8
Verlag: Princeton University Press
This book examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. It focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization challenged the forces of the Ottoman Empire by seizing control of the mountain town of Krusevo. A century later, Krusevo is part of the Republic of Macedonia and a site for yearly commemorations of 1903. In the course of the intervening hundred years, various communities have vied to establish an authoritative account of what happened in 1903--and to weave those events into a longer and wider narrative of social, cultural, and national evolution.Keith Brown examines how Krusevo's residents, refugees, and exiles have participated--along with scholars, journalists, artists, bureaucrats, and politicians--in a conversation about their vexed past. By tracing different approaches to understanding, commemorating, and narrating the events of 1903, he shows how in this small mountain town the "magic of nationalism" by which destiny is written into particular historical events has neither failed nor wholly succeeded. Stories of heroism, self-sacrifice, and unity still rub against tales of treachery, score settling, and disaster as people come to terms with the legacies of imperialism, socialism, and nationalism. The efforts of Krusevo's successive generations to transcend a past of intercommunal violence reveal how rival claims to knowledge and truth acquire vital significance during rapid social, economic, and political change.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Tables and Figures ix
Preface xi
Notes on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii
Chapter One
Introduction 1
Chapter Two
A Double Legacy: Macedonia's Yugoslav and Balkan Histories 22
Chapter Three
"Crowded Out by a Plethora of Facts": Distance and Experience in Western Narratives of Kru. sevo 51
Chapter Four
Tipping Points: The Transformation of Identities in Kru. sevo 79
Chapter Five
Between the Revolutions: Life in Kru. sevo 1903-1944 103
Chapter Six
Buying the Memories: Collectivization, the Past and National Identity 126
Chapter Seven
History Stated: The Making of a Monument 153
Chapter Eight
Local Truths: Rereading 1903 the Kru. sevo Way 181
Chapter Nine
On the Brink of a New, Old World: Recasting Solidarity After Yugoslavia 211
Chapter Ten
Conclusion 234
Glossary and Acronyms 251
Notes 255
Bibliography 277
Index 295
