TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidova,Evguenia
TI  - Balkan transitions to modernity and nation-states: through the eyes of three generations of merchants, (1780s-1890s) 
T2  - Balkan studies library
SN  - 9789004236639
AV  - HC401 .D387 2013eb
U1  - 330.9496/038 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 6, 2012); Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Fathers, 1780s–1820s -- 2 The Sons, 1820s–1860s -- 3 The Grandsons, 1860s–1890s -- 4 Gendered Business: Merchant Ladies as Entrepreneurs -- 5 Parallel Networks: Trade as Appropriation of Space and Multiple Uses of Time -- 6 Tropes of Nationalisms: Visible Markets, Invisible Ideologies -- 7 Everyday Practices, Sociability, and Public Imagery -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In contrast to research on elites or “history from below,” this study offers an approach that can be called “mesohistory” – a collective social biography of the Balkan merchants. In foregrounding the voices of traders, this study sheds fresh light on multiethnic networks of social actors navigating multiple social, political, and economic systems – supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies. Personal accounts humanize features of these “faceless” socially mediating groups. Merchants’ generation-specific perspectives on the economy, society, and state, both in times of war and peace, are analyzed against the backdrop of Balkan, Ottoman, and European history. The study captures a dialogue between primary and secondary sources and the major debates regarding nationalism, modernity, and the Ottoman legacy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004236639
ER  -