Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s) (Balkan Studies Library) by Evguenia Davidova
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9004236414 | ISBN-13: 9789004236417 | 244 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9004236414 | ISBN-13: 9789004236417 | 244 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
Drawing upon previously unpublished commercial ledgers and correspondence, this study offers a collective social biography of three generations of Balkan merchants. Personal accounts humanize multiethnic networks that navigated multiple social systems supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies.