Imagining the Balkans

by Maria N. Todorova

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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.

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Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Important places
Balkans

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Genres
History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
949.6History & geographyHistory of EuropeGreece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Romania, BulgariaTurkey and the Balkans
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DR34 .T63History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaBalkan PeninsulaHistory of Balkan PeninsulaHistory. Balkan War, 1912-1913
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