Introduction Balkanism and the Orientalism: Are They Different
Categories?
1. The Balkans: Nomen
2. "Balkans" as Self-designation
3. The Discovery of the Balkans
4. Patterns of Perception until 1900
5. From Discovery to Invention, from Invention to
Classification
6. Between Classification and Politics: The Balkans and the Myth of
Central Europe
7. The Balkans: Realia -Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de hors-texte?
Conclusion
Afterword to the Updated Edition
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Balkans."--Nicholas J. Miller, Journal of Interdisciplinary
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