Oxford University Press, Date: 2009-04-15. 1. Used - Very Good. A copy that may have been read, very minimal wear and tear. May have a remainder mark. 2009. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195387864 9780195387865 [US]

ISBN10: 0195387864, ISBN13: 9780195387865, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2009-04-15. Updated. paperback. Used: Good. 2009. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195387864 9780195387865 [US]

ISBN10: 0195387864, ISBN13: 9780195387865, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
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Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 2009. Paperback. New. updated edition. 304 pages. 9.10x6.00x0.60 inches. 2009. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0195387864 9780195387865 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195387864, ISBN13: 9780195387865, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. "If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. 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, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from thesixteenth 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.Maria Todorova, whowas 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 Imagining the Balkans. 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 wastransformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history. Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative ...