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Rebels, Believers, Survivors - Studies in the History of the Albanians (Hardcover)
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Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its
little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a
sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian
lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have
been a meeting-ground of Christianity and Islam; a channel through
which Venice connected with the Ottoman Balkans; a place of
interest to the Habsburgs; and a focus for the ambitions of
neighbouring powers in the late Ottoman period. Albanians
themselves could have many different identities. The studies in
this volume, by one of the world's leading experts on Albanian
history, range from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, taking
in politics, social history, religion and diplomacy. Each is based
on original research; the longest, on Ali Pasha, uses a wealth of
manuscript material to tell, for the first time, the full story of
the vital role he played in the international politics of the
Napoleonic Wars. Other studies bring to life ordinary individuals
hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition,
for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography.
Some of these studies have been printed before (several in
hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the
greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is
not only a landmark publication for readers interested in
south-east European history. It also engages with many broader
issues, including religious conversion, 'crypto-Christianity' among
Muslims, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the
nature of modern myth-making about national identity.
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