Spatial Conceptions of the Nation : Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey.
Title:
Spatial Conceptions of the Nation : Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey.
Author:
Diamandouros, Nikiforos.
ISBN:
9780857716965
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Series:
International Library of Historical Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Social and Historical Studies on Greece and Turkey -- Ackowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- IMPERIAL REALM TO NATIONAL LANDS -- 1. The Imaginary Topographies of the Megali Idea: National Territory as Utopia -- Anastasia Stouraiti and Alexander Kazamias -- 2. Urban Space and Nationalism: Changing Local Networks in the Nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire -- Yonca Koksal -- 3. From Ottoman Territory to a Greek State: Hypotheses on an Unfinished Rupture -- Yannis Tsiomis -- 4. Sisyphean Task or Procrustean Bed? Matching State and Church Borders and Promised Lands in Greece -- Anastassios Anastassiadis -- 5. The Role of Religion and Geography in Turkish Nationalism: The Case of Nurettin Topcu -- M. Asim Karaomerlioglu -- 6. Imagining the Nation: 'L'imaginaire' and Public Space in Turkey -- Nur Yalman -- PART II -- ISLAND NATION(S) -- 7. The Materiality of Sovereignty: Geographical Expertise and Changing Place Names in Northern Cyprus -- Yael Navaro-Yashin -- 8. Greek Cypriot National Identity: A Clash between Geography and History -- Caesar V. Mavratsas -- PART III -- COSMOPOLITAN CONTESTS -- 9. Nationalisms vs Millets: Building Collective Identities in Ottoman Thrace -- Paraskevas Konortas -- 10. Contested Territories and the Quest for Ethnology: People and Places in Izmir 1919-22 -- 11. Antakya between Empire and Nation -- Resat Kasaba -- 12. Narratives of Istanbul's Ottoman Heritage -- Ayse Oncu -- Notes -- References -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index -- Maps -- Map 1.1 Rigas's Carta of Greece with a surface plan of Constantinople, Vienna 1797 -- Map 1.2 Heinrich Kiepert's Map of the Hellenic Countries with the nearby Albanian, Slavic and Romanian, Society for the Dissemination of Greek letters, 4th edn, Leipzig, Nerantzis, 1891 (1st edition, 1878) -- Map 1.3 Map of Greater Greece (1920) -- Table.
Table 4.1 Results of the informal New Lands bishops' vote of June 1924.
Abstract:
The formation of nation-states is as much the result of developments regarding land and people, as of military and political struggle. How nationalists imagined the borders of their desired territory, and how they defined the 'nation' have determined the nature of the struggle. 'Spatial Conceptions of the Nation' looks at the various aspects and stages of this process in Greece and Turkey - two states where alternative principles establishing the basis for territory and population continue to compete. This book considers the intellectual and political conditions within which variously demarcated national spaces were imagined and considers the debates, social forces, and world-historical events that have affected national boundaries and conceptions of the 'nation'. _x000D_ _x000D_ '...The principal common element in the [chapters], the emphasis in the mixture and interaction of history and geography, as applied to a region peculiarly rich in both, proves especially productive. And the totality of the essays included illuminate in interesting (and often original) manner the history and relations of the two peoples principally involved - the Greeks and the Turks -and the ways in which they have interacted and influenced one another over the past two centuries.'_x000D_ - A. A. Fatouros, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Athens.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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