Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space

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Contents
Editorial Note
Part I Introduction
	Agents of Modernization in Southeast Europe: State of the Art and the Contribution of the Present Volume
Part II Foreign Agents of Institutional Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Urban Centres
	Michał Czajkowski/Sadık Pasha and His Ottoman Cossack Regiment as Agents of Modernization
	Ottoman Reformer, Foreign Expert, Political Commentator: Andreas David Mordtmann as Contributor to and Critic of Late Ottoman Modernization
	Prusyalı Emin Efendi (1813–1892): The Founding Director of the First Modern Law School (Mekteb-i Hukûk) in the Ottoman Empire
	Konstantin Jireček and the Outset of Modern Institutions in Bulgaria (1879–84)
Part III Agents of Social and Cultural Modernization: Tradition, Modernity, and Nation-Building in Imperial and Post-Imperial Context
	Society, Technology, and Culture, or How the Balkans Meet Modernity
	A Thwarted Modernity? Ottoman Princes in the Nineteenth Century
	In Search of Modernity to the East: Bulgarian Students at Leading Educational Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Constantinople
	The Modern Influences in Healthcare and Hygiene and the Traditional Bulgarian Society in Salonica
	From Military Downfall to Rejuvenation: The Balkan Wars and the Vision of the Ottoman Nation’s Rebirth
Part IV Agents of Economic and Technological Modernization in the Ottoman Periphery
	Ottoman Merchants, Provincial Elites, and the Introduction of Modern Commercial Litigation in the Ottoman Balkans (1840s–50s)
	‘Public Benefit’ Funds as a Result and an Instrument of Ottoman Мodernization
	Ottoman ‘Infrastructure Governors’ as Agents of Technological and Economic Modernization
	Foreign Technology and Local Agents of Modernization: The Rusçuk and Varna Railway Project as a Case Study for the Ottoman Modernization
List of Selected Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Tables, Graphs and Maps
Notes on Contributors
Index
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