A Contested Borderland : Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century.
Bessarabia was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and im...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest :
Central European University LLC,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Bessarabia was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of 'symbolic inclusion, ' but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (347 pages) |
ISBN: | 9789633861608 9633861608 |