- Champaign, Illinois, United States
Maria Todorova
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History, Department Member
The BalkansTASSOS ANASTASSIADIS and NATHALIE CLAYER, eds., Society, Politics, and State Formation in Southeastern Europe During the 19th century (Athens: Alpha Bank, 2011), Pp. 403, £ 39.00 clothThis excellent volume devoted to state... more
The BalkansTASSOS ANASTASSIADIS and NATHALIE CLAYER, eds., Society, Politics, and State Formation in Southeastern Europe During the 19th century (Athens: Alpha Bank, 2011), Pp. 403, £ 39.00 clothThis excellent volume devoted to state formation in Southeastern Europe during the long nineteenth century is premised on the conviction that "it is more fruitful to engage in a comparative study of the different state cases in the region rather than comparing them individually with Western European states" (19). Only in this way, assert the editors in their comprehensive introduction, can one avoid the biased, deterministic and ultimately useless diagnoses of clientelism, incomplete liberalization, absence of civil society, traditionalism and backwardness, offered to explain the failure of the transplanted and caricatured models of Western modernity. The volume seeks to challenge this verdict by showing that state formation was "a complicated affair that involved juggling var...
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In 1996, the freshly created journal “The History of the Family” devoted its fourth issue to the Balkan Family [...]
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, Cultural History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Humanities, and 15 moreHistory of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Cultural Theory, Continental Philosophy, Eastern European history, Communism, Intellectuals, Jan Patocka, Karl Marx, Civil Society, Central and Eastern Europe, Central European Dissidence, Literary studies, Historical Studies, and History of Philosophy
This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short”... more
This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balkans, with consequences that are still felt today. More than one hundred years later, the successors of the belligerent states in Southeastern Europe memorialize the wars as heroic highlights of their respective pasts. Furthermore, the metaphor that the Balkans were Europe’s “powder keg”, perpetuated at the beginning of the twentieth century in the face of these wars, was reactivated in both the West and the East up through the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. The authors entangle the hitherto exclusive national master narratives and analyse them cogently and trenchantly for an international readership. They make an indispensable contribution to the proper integration of the Balkan Wars into the European historical memory of twentieth-century warfare.
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This article reconsiders the Western and Eastern nationalism actually the former's branch from a renewed perspective namely one which takes into account the category of time. There are two levels at which the problem of temporality... more
This article reconsiders the Western and Eastern nationalism actually the former's branch from a renewed perspective namely one which takes into account the category of time. There are two levels at which the problem of temporality can be introduced. The first is at the level of discourse of the nationalism itself while the second is the explication of the uneven development in historiography as well as the interpreting of precedence, derivativeness and traveling of ideas. Benedect Anderson is quoted with his idea that models of nationalism are easy to copy and theat European nationalisms are copies pirated from the Creole pioneers in the Americas. Johannes Fabian's suggestion for anthropological research are taken into consideration for the historical analysis with a demonstration that the other can be met on the same ground in the same time
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... Zweiten Weltkrieg heraus. Das eine, das er aus einer kulturhistorischen Perspektive das europäische nennt, erstreckte sich über Nordwesteuropa und sei übri-gens eine weltweit einzigartige Erscheinung. Dieses Muster zeichnet ...
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The big question looming behind the polemical exchange between Adeeb Khalid and Nathaniel Knight is the timeless question of Russian history: how unique is Russia? How applicable are general historical categories and models (especially... more
The big question looming behind the polemical exchange between Adeeb Khalid and Nathaniel Knight is the timeless question of Russian history: how unique is Russia? How applicable are general historical categories and models (especially when universalized on the basis of ...
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This last quotation pinpoints the phenomenon locally, using the term zadruga. Many authors would employ the term interchangeably with extended, multiple, complex, large, communal family, but practi-cally no one has dared ignore it, if for... more
This last quotation pinpoints the phenomenon locally, using the term zadruga. Many authors would employ the term interchangeably with extended, multiple, complex, large, communal family, but practi-cally no one has dared ignore it, if for no other reason, then at least for ...
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http://eep.sagepub.com Societies East European Politics & DOI: 10.1177/0888325490004003003 1990; 4; 439 East European Politics and Societies Maria Todorova Case During the Nineteenth Century Language as Cultural Unifier in a... more
http://eep.sagepub.com Societies East European Politics & DOI: 10.1177/0888325490004003003 1990; 4; 439 East European Politics and Societies Maria Todorova Case During the Nineteenth Century Language as Cultural Unifier in a Multilingual Setting: the Bulgarian ...
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... 6. The latest work in this line of reasoning belongs to James G. Kellas, The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity (London, 1991), which aims at presenting one ...
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... I think I have made the point about the multiplicity and variety of Balkan cultures, not of one Balkan culture, following empirical evidence and logic. ... The dynamic vision of culture, of which I spoke, has regrettably not spilled... more
... I think I have made the point about the multiplicity and variety of Balkan cultures, not of one Balkan culture, following empirical evidence and logic. ... The dynamic vision of culture, of which I spoke, has regrettably not spilled over outside academe. ...
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... Am Ende meiner Arbeit erfuhr ich durch Elena Popova (Sofia) wesentliche Unterstützung bei Recherchen im Zentralen Staatsarchiv in Sofia. ... Allerdings verliert er ihre Adresse und macht sich daher ohne diese nach Sofia auf, um Elena... more
... Am Ende meiner Arbeit erfuhr ich durch Elena Popova (Sofia) wesentliche Unterstützung bei Recherchen im Zentralen Staatsarchiv in Sofia. ... Allerdings verliert er ihre Adresse und macht sich daher ohne diese nach Sofia auf, um Elena wie-der zu finden. ...
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Page 1. BONES OF CONTENTION THE LIVING ARCHIVE OF VASIL LEVSKI AND THE MAKING OF BULGARIA'S NATIONAL HERO CE UPRESS MARIA TODOROVA Page 2. Mi MariaTodorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of... more
Page 1. BONES OF CONTENTION THE LIVING ARCHIVE OF VASIL LEVSKI AND THE MAKING OF BULGARIA'S NATIONAL HERO CE UPRESS MARIA TODOROVA Page 2. Mi MariaTodorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...
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... I think I have made the point about the multiplicity and variety of Balkan cultures, not of one Balkan culture, following empirical evidence and logic. ... The dynamic vision of culture, of which I spoke, has regrettably not spilled... more
... I think I have made the point about the multiplicity and variety of Balkan cultures, not of one Balkan culture, following empirical evidence and logic. ... The dynamic vision of culture, of which I spoke, has regrettably not spilled over outside academe. ...
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... Am Ende meiner Arbeit erfuhr ich durch Elena Popova (Sofia) wesentliche Unterstützung bei Recherchen im Zentralen Staatsarchiv in Sofia. ... Allerdings verliert er ihre Adresse und macht sich daher ohne diese nach Sofia auf, um Elena... more
... Am Ende meiner Arbeit erfuhr ich durch Elena Popova (Sofia) wesentliche Unterstützung bei Recherchen im Zentralen Staatsarchiv in Sofia. ... Allerdings verliert er ihre Adresse und macht sich daher ohne diese nach Sofia auf, um Elena wie-der zu finden. ...
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MARIA TODOROVA editor Balkan Identities Nation and Memory ... Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to come to terms with history is... more
MARIA TODOROVA editor Balkan Identities Nation and Memory ... Balkan Identities brings together historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars all working under the shared conviction that the only way to come to terms with history is to achieve an intimate understanding of it. ...