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Hannes Grandits is a Professor at the Department of History at the Hum- boldt-University in Berlin and a former senior associate for Southeast Euro- pean History at the University of Graz. Nathalie Clayer is a Professor at the EHESS (Paris) and a senior research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). She is the director of the CETOBAC (Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques, CNRS- EHESS). Robert Pichler is a researcher and lecturer at the Department for Southeast European History at the University of Graz. CONFLICTING LOYALTIES IN THE BALKANS The Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Nation-Building Edited by Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer and Robert Pichler Published in 2011 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright Editorial Selection and Introduction © 2011 Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer and Robert Pichler Copyright Individual Chapters © 2011 Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer, Robert Pichler, Malte Fuhrmann, Bernard Lory, Ioannis Zelepos, Alexander Vezenkov, Eyal Ginio, Eva Anne Frantz, Nataša Mišković and Galia Valtchinova The right of Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer and Robert Pichler to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Library of Ottoman Studies 28 ISBN 978 1 84885 477 2 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Printed and bound in India by Thomson Press (India) Camera-ready copy edited and supplied by the editors CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors ix List of Illustrations xiii Introduction: Social (dis-)integration and the national turn in the late- and post-Ottoman Balkans: Towards an analytical framework Hannes Grandits, Nathalie Clayer and Robert Pichler 1 PART I: JANUS-FACED EUROPEANIZATION 13 1. Vagrants, prostitutes and Bosnians: making and unmaking European supremacy in Ottoman Southeast Europe Malte Fuhrmann 15 2. Schools for the destruction of society: school propaganda in Bitola 1860–1912 Bernard Lory 46 3. Amateurs as nation-builders? On the significance of associations for the formation and nationalization of Greek society in the nineteenth century Ioannis Zelepos 64 PART II: AMBIGUOUS ACTORS, CONFLICTING STRATEGIES 87 4. The dimension of confessionalisation in the Ottoman Balkans at the time of Nationalisms Nathalie Clayer 89 vi Conflicting Loyalties in the Balkans 5. Violent social disintegration: a nation-building strategy in late-Ottoman Herzegovina Hannes Grandits 110 6. In the service of the Sultan, in the service of the Revolution: Local Bulgarian notables in the 1870s Alexander Vezenkov 135 PART III: REFRAINED LOYALTIES 155 7. El Dovér El Mas Sànto. The mobilization of the Ottoman Jewish population during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) Eyal Ginio 157 8. Catholic Albanian warriors for the Sultan in late-Ottoman Kosovo: the Fandi as a socio-professional group and their identity patterns Eva Anne Frantz 182 PART IV: ELITE PROJECTS, DIVERGENT REALITIES 203 9. Mission, power and violence: Serbia’s national turn Nataša Mišković 205 10. Nationalism at (symbolic) work: social disintegration and the national turn in Melnik and Stanimaka Galia Valtchinova 225 Notes 251 Index 339 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to the University of Graz which enabled us to invite sev- eral contributors of this volume to present their papers at the Center for Southeast European History. The discussions that revolved around these presentations were the starting point for this publication. We also want to thank the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiati- ques (EHESS-CNRS) in Paris, which supported the language editing and financially enabled the copy editing of this book. We are very much indebted to Gesine Meeker who worked with patience and accuracy to copy edit all of the contributions, and particular thanks also go to Christelle Chevallier who worked on the formatting and Martin Blasius who helped in the checking of the final manuscript. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Nathalie Clayer is a Professor at the EHESS (Paris) and a senior research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). She is the director of the CETOBAC (Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques, CNRS-EHESS). Her research focuses on religion and state-building in the Balkans, espe- cially among the Albanians. Her most recent book is entitled Aux origines du nationalisme albanais, Paris, Karthala, 2007. Eva Anne Frantz is a research fellow at the Balkan Commission of the Aus- trian Academy of Sciences. She is currently finishing her PhD thesis about culture and society in late-Ottoman Kosovo 1870–1913. Her main research interests focus on the study of modern cultural history of Albania, Serbia and Kosovo. She recently published “Loyalitätsoptionen und Identitätsmus- ter von Albanern in Kosovo in spätosmanischer Zeit (1870–1913): Zur Be- deutung von Religion und Familie”, in Emil Brix, Arnold Suppan and Elisabeth Vyslonzil (eds.), Südosteuropa. Traditionen als Macht, Vienna, Ver- lag für Geschichte und Politik, 2007, pp. 73–86, and “Violence and its Im- pact on Loyalty and Identity Formation in Late Ottoman Kosovo: Muslims and Christians in a Period of Reform and Transformation”, Journal of Mus- lim Minority Affairs, 29 (2009), 4, pp. 455–468. Malte Fuhrmann is a researcher at the Orient Institute Istanbul. He has published on German colonialism in Southeast Europe, Habsburg immi- grants into the Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean port cities. He is co- editor together with Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi, and Florian Riedler of The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity, London, Routledge, 2010.
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