Drawing upon previously unpublished commercial ledgers and correspondence, this study offers a collective social biography of three generations of Balkan mercha

In contrast to research on elites or “history from below,” this study offers an approach that can be called “mesohistory” – a collective social biogra

"The book contains a presentation and critical consideration of the ideas of historians on the major problems, processes, events, and personalities of the era o

Examines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, remi

The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evol