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Balkan transitions to modernity and nation-states : through the eyes of three generations of merchants, (1780s-1890s) /

Drawing upon previously unpublished commercial ledgers and correspondence, this study offers a collective social biography of three generations of Balkan merchants. Personal accounts humanize multiethnic networks that navigated multiple social systems - supporting and opposing various aspects of nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davidova, Evguenia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Balkan studies library ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translations; Glossary; Introduction; Chapter One The Fathers, 1780s-1820s; Chapter Two The Sons, 1820s-1860s; Chapter Three The Grandsons, 1860s-1890s; Chapter Four Gendered Business: Merchant Ladies as Entrepreneurs; Chapter Five Parallel Networks: Trade as Appropriation of Space and Multiple Uses of Time; Chapter Six Tropes of Nationalisms: Visible Markets, Invisible Ideologies; Chapter Seven Everyday Practices, Sociability, and Public Imagery; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index