5. Understanding the Margins of Albanian History: Communities on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table Of Contents 1
3. Preface 7
4. Abbreviations 8
5. 1. Introduction. Blinded by the State: Revisiting Late Ottoman Social History in the Balkans and Arabia 9
6. 2. Finding Social History on the Bookshelf: The Tyranny of Sociological Categories in Studies on Albanians and the Balkans 23
7. 3. Redefining Tribal Pathologies, Yemen's undeclared Dynamic beyond the Gaze of the State 43
8. 4. All was not Quiet on the Southern Front: Yemen's Social Hierarchies and the Role of the Ottoman State, 1911-1918 57
9. 5. Understanding the Margins of Albanian History: Communities on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire 83
10. 6. Defying the State and Defining the State: Local Politics in Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 103
11. 7. Locating Fragmented Identities in Switzerland's Ottoman-Albanian Diaspora, 1899-1920 123
12. 8. Undressing Malësore Albanians: Rewriting Late Ottoman History through its Material Culture 135
13. 9. Resisting Globalization Through the Eyes of Albanian Muslims: Comparing the Successes of the 19th century to the failures of the 21st 155
14. 10. Divergent Loyalties and Their Memory: Albanian Soldiers in the Great War 171
15. Conclusion 193
16. Bibliography 197