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• W1236244906 abstract "ISA BLUMI, Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912 (New York: Palgrave, 2011). Pp. 272. $ 85.00 cloth.Until recently there were very few English-language studies on the nineteenthcentury Ottoman Balkans. Even with emergent new work this tumultuous period remains on the margins of western scholarship on Southeastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Isa Blumi's Reinstating the Ottomans is a welcome addition to the new work that engages a number of important questions in relation to this period in the region's history. Blumi deftly weaves fresh research with secondary literature from the last decade to provide ample empirical detail, outlined by a provocative conceptual framework. He invites the reader to rethink a century of Ottoman Balkan transformation and violence, reform and political negation, in the shadow of intense European political, diplomatic and economic involvement in the region. Two concepts are particularly critical to the author's adroit historiographical intervention, namely, nationalism and modernity. First, Blumi questions the notion that Balkan nationalisms (or even collective identities such as religion or millet) were key factors in driving events of the nineteenth century. Second, he provokes the reader to rethink the place and role of the region in the generalized development of global modernity.Blumi's arguments unfold in the course of a remarkably complicated and fascinating story of intrigue and negotiations of power in the Western Balkans, with a focus on the territories now inhabited by populations. Careful not to employ terms anachronistically, Blumi uses the term Albanian and other such identifiers in quotes, rightly arguing that identities were primarily local in this period. He succeeds in telling the nineteenth- century Albanian story in an exceedingly sophisticated way, convincingly showing the significance of Albanians for Ottoman history, while proving the importance of Ottoman (and Balkan) developments for European history. This is an important corrective to modern European history, in particular, which tends to see the declining Ottoman Empire as outside mainstream patterns of European modernity. Blumi, however, occasionally pushes the envelope a little far in his attempt to break out of a Eurocentric teleology of modernity. His argument that Ottoman modernizing reforms were independent of and even in some respects pre-dated similar state projects in the West contradicts his own insistence on constant European interventions in the economy, politics, religion, education and elsewhere. Here I am not suggesting that Blumi's use of the notion of Ottoman-Balkan alternative modernities is incorrect but that modernity-West and East-was a product of very intensive interactions that make its teleology and genealogy a complex equation. As Blumi himself asserts-though in reference to state and local interaction- modernity was a product of (or perhaps indicative of) constantly shifting bases of interaction and the creative adjustments this required.Nationalism in a certain sense was one of these bases, one that Blumi argues was employed as a practice rather than a category, expressing local realities. Blumi repeatedly argues against the (here mostly Albanian) character of virtually every event and individual of the century, including many that have become sacred in the canon of national revival heroes and events. …" @default.
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