Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: Towards a Framework for Studying the Politics of National Pecularity in the 19th Century 1
4. Part I. Ethnos and Citizens: Versions of Cultural-Political Construction of Identity
5. Reconciliation of the Spirits and Fusion of the Interests: “Ottomanism” as an Identity Politics 45
6. The People Incorporated: Constructions of the Nation in Transylvanian Romanian Liberalism, 1838–1848 79
7. We, the Macedonians: The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878–1912) 107
8. History and Character: Visions of National Peculiarity in the Romanian Political Discourse of the 19th Century 139
9. Part II. Nationalization of Sciences and the Definitions of the Folk
10. Barbarians, Civilized People and Bulgarians: Definition of Identity in Textbooks and the Press (1830–1878) 179
11. Narrating “the People” and “Disciplining” the Folk: The Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1870–1900) 207
12. Who are the Bulgarians? “Race,” Science and Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Bulgaria 237
13. Part III. The Canon-Builders
14. Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History 271
15. Faik Konitza, the Modernizer of the Albanian Language and Nation 307
16. Shemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850–1904): Contributing to the Construction of Albanian and Turkish Identities 341
17. Notes on the Contributors 373
18. Index 377