This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to have been Albanians, providing a revisionist exploration of national identity prior to the establishment of the nation-state.

Autorentext
ISA BLUMI Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, USA.

Inhalt
The Search for a Narrative of Transition Retrieving Historical Process: Transitions to a Modern Story Repositioning Agency and the Forces of Change The Compromised Empire: Ethnicity and Faith under State Powers Governing Exchange: Boundaries and the Struggle to Define/Confine Learning the Wrong Lesson: Local Challenges to Educational Reform