A collection of sources that opens up new and unexpected perspectives on the 19th century

This volume aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of political, economic and cultural modernisation in the South Slavic countries as an ambivalent process that was open-ended and, above all, not solely oriented towards the societies of Western Europe. The textual and visual sources it presents tell unexpected stories about the circulation of ideas and goods as well as the cross-border mobility of people in this region during the long 19th century. In doing so, it opens up a view of 'alternative modernities' and shows the special significance of the exchanges with the Ottoman and Russian Empires.

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Dennis Dierks is a research fellow at the University of Leipzig. His research focuses on the history of reform, revolution, nationalism and memory in Eastern Europe. Nenad Makuljevic is Professor of Art History at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His main areas of research are 19th-century Serbian art, Balkan visual culture, art historiography, the relationship between art and politics, and Ottoman-Christian-Jewish connections in visual culture. Edin Radusic is Professor of History at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research interests include the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the history of diplomacy, media and Orientalism. Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald lehrt seit 2013 Südosteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität Gießen.