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"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position...
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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
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How does the Western world represent India? In this controversial and widely-praised book, the author argues that the West's major depictions of India have deprived Indians of their capacity to rule thir own world.
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