Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912

Cover......Page 1
Titlepage......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction: The Search for a Narrative of Transition......Page 24
Rewriting the Late Ottoman Context......Page 28
Methodological Challenges......Page 29
The Order of the Book......Page 32
Repositioning the Ottoman Experience in Modern History......Page 35
Disaggregating the Ottoman World......Page 39
Differentiating Subjects: Regionalisms and the Fis......Page 43
1 Retrieving Historical Processes: Transitionsto a Modern Story......Page 54
Breaking Out from under the State......Page 56
Paradigmatic Barriers......Page 58
Upsetting the Medieval Cradle and Ottoman Settings......Page 61
Revisiting the Ayan and the Politics of Local Alliances......Page 68
“Europe” Encroaches on Epirus......Page 71
Alternative Trajectories since the 1820s......Page 74
Provisional Modernity: The Ottoman Context......Page 77
Disaggregating Balkan Polarities......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 83
2 Repositioning Agency and the Forces of Change......Page 86
The Sociocultural Context of the Reformer......Page 88
Localizing Reform......Page 90
Reforming the Margins, Renaming the Agenda......Page 93
Reforming Home for the Empire......Page 101
Provisional Origins of Pashko Vasa’s Shqyptarija......Page 103
Sami: The Patriarch of Tosk Cultural and Regional Elitism......Page 109
Conclusion......Page 115
The Ottoman World Teeters on Destruction......Page 118
Opportunities out of Disaster......Page 122
The Sultan Reaches Out: Mehmed Ali Pasha’s Mission......Page 125
Abdyl’s Mission to Kosova......Page 128
Loyal Sami’s Ottoman Vigil......Page 130
Bektashism and Tosk Exceptionalism......Page 133
Activism from Abroad......Page 140
Ismail Qemali Bey......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 146
4 Exchange and Governance: Boundaries andthe Struggle to Define/Confine People......Page 148
A Modern World Repeatedly Refined......Page 149
The Kingdom of Serbia’s Expansion into Niš......Page 151
Montenegro and Malësi......Page 155
The Malësorë......Page 158
Building the Montenegro State......Page 162
A Post- Ottoman Icon: Isa Boletini and Redefining the Balkans......Page 166
The 1908 Paradox......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 171
5 Learning the Wrong Lesson: Local Challenges toEducational Reform......Page 174
A History of Education Reform in the Ottoman Empire......Page 176
Native-born Reformer......Page 178
The Italian/Austro-Hungarian Rivalry......Page 180
Resisting Church and State: Co-opting “Education”......Page 183
Infiltrating the Imperial School......Page 187
The Indigenous School......Page 191
The 1908 Revolt and New Opportunities for Education......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 198
Recapping the Story......Page 200
Notes......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 244
Index......Page 266