Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

"Outstanding."--Misha Glenny, London Review of Books
"Passionate, learned, entertaining, polemical, ambitious, courageous."--Slavic Review
"Contains many brilliant insights and always displays the author's enormous erudition."--CHOICE
"Todorova's book is a passionate, provocative, and necessary attempt to retrace the construction of a pejorative image of the Balkans."--Nicholas J. Miller, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Full of challenging ideas, forcefully presented opinions, references for further reading, and enlightening observations."--Gale Stokes, H-Net
"By far the best work of historiography on the region."--Tomislav Z. Longinovic, Lingua Franca