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A Concise History of Albania
A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a particularly brutal form of communism to an evolving form of democracy and a market economy. Bernd Fischer and Oliver Schmitt challenge some of the traditional narratives concerning the origins of the Albanians, and the relations between Albanians and their Balkan neighbours. This authoritative and up-to-date single-volume history analyses the political, social, economic, and cultural developments which led to the creation of the Albanian state and the modern nation, as well as Albania's more recent experience with authoritarianism, war, and communism. It greatly contributes to our understanding of the challenges facing contemporary Albanians, as well as the issues confronting the region as a whole as it attempts to grapple with one of the last remaining significant ethnic issues in the Balkans.
The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans
The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans constitutes a major change in European history. Scholarship on the topic is extensive, yet the evidence produced by decades of research is very scattered and lacking comprehensive synthesis, not to mention consensual interpretation. Although major political and military milestones seem to have been investigated thoroughly, there is a notable absence of more theoretical and interpretative approaches that overarch the entire phenomenon rather than merely individual aspects. Scholars have hitherto addressed the topic from various perspectives and employing a wide range of methods, but Byzantine studies, Ottoman studies, Eastern Mediterranean studies and national historiographies in the Balkan countries have yet to establish either a coherent collaboration or a consistent model of interpretation. This volume therefore rather aims at opening and structuring a new heuristic approach and at coordinating a field of studies that is of crucial importance for understanding change in European history.
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt
The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, it brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography.
Living in the Ottoman Ecumenical Community
This book dedicated to Suraiya Faroqhi shows that the early modern world was not only characterized by its having been split up into states with closed frontiers. Writing history “from the bottom”, by treating the Ottoman Empire and other countries as “subjects of history”, reduces the importance of political borders for doing historical research. Each social, economic and religious group had its own world-view and in most of the cases the borders of these communities were not identical with the political frontiers. Regarding the Ottoman Empire and the other early modern states as systems of different ecumenical communities rather than only as political units offers a different appro...
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital – province, urban political elites – rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic
Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.
Levantiner
Die Levantiner, eine aus europäischstämmigen, armenischen und arabischen Katholiken bestehende Gruppe, waren im langen 19. Jahrhundert vor allem um Konstantinopel und Smyrna heimisch. Jens Oliver Schmitt verfolgt erstmals unter sozial- und gesellschaftsgeschichtlichen Gesichtspunkten, wie diese rein konfessionell definierte, supranationale Gemeinschaft auf die unter den Vorzeichen von Nationalismus und Säkularisation erfolgende Modernisierung des osmanischen Reiches reagierte. Bewusst wählt er dabei mit dem Blick "von unten" einen neuen Ansatz in der Nationalismusforschung. Sein zweiter Schwerpunkt gilt der Stellung der Levantiner im Spannungsfeld von osmanischer Gesellschaft und den europäischen Herkunftsstaaten.
Balcanii in secolul XX
Traducere de Irina Manea și Andrei Pogăciaș Secole la rând, spațiul balcanic s-a aflat sub ocupația și influența imperiilor. Acum un veac însă, și Imperiul Otoman, și Imperiul Austro-Ungar, și Imperiul Rus s-au prăbușit, iar odată cu ele și sistemul imperial, dând naștere statelor naționale, cu alte aspirații și viziuni politice, militare, sociale, etnice și religioase. Balcanii sunt un spațiu definit prin realități etnice și religioase extrem de complexe, realități create și menținute de imperii timp de secole prin structuri care păreau abolite odată cu sfârșitul Primul Război Mondial. Noile state naționale apărute pe ruinele vechilor imperii au încerc...
Religion und Kultur im albanischsprachigen Südosteuropa
In europäischer Vergleichsperspektive nimmt die Religionsgeschichte der Albaner eine Sonderstellung ein. Sunnitischer Islam, der muslimische Derwischorden der Bektashi, das orthodoxe und das katholische Christentum haben sich seit dem Mittelalter zu einem vielschichtigen Zusammenleben zwischen friedlichem Nebeneinander und Phasen verstärkter Abgrenzung entwickelt. Die Volksrepublik Albanien war zudem im 20. Jahrhundert der einzige offiziell atheistische Staat der Welt. Dieser Band vermittelt einen Einblick in die Geschichte der Religionen und Konfessionen seit dem Mittelalter und behandelt zentrale Fragen des Verhältnisses von Religion, Identität und Gesellschaft.
Der Balkan im 20. Jahrhundert
It was around a century ago that the great empires of eastern Europe collapsed. For more than a hundred years, attempts have been made to erase the legacy of empire through assimilation, expulsions and destruction. But the modern national states in the Balkans are still today continuing the tradition of the Byzantine, Ottoman and Habsburg empires. Against this background, Oliver Schmitt has written a postimperial history of the Balkans. This unusual angle enables him to regard the Balkans as a large region of Europe and point out lines of continuity that persist to the present day. On the basis of recent research, fundamental developments in politics, society, the economy and culture are compared transnationally, so that differences and common elements among the individual Balkan states, as well as across the region as a whole, clearly emerge.
