Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912. / Isa Blumi

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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Search for a Narrative of Transition -- Rewriting the Late Ottoman Context -- Methodological Challenges -- The Order of the Book -- Repositioning the Ottoman Experience in Modern History -- Disaggregating the Ottoman World -- Differentiating Subjects: Regionalisms and the Fis -- 1 Retrieving Historical Processes: Transitionsto a Modern Story -- Breaking Out from under the State -- Paradigmatic Barriers -- Upsetting the Medieval Cradle and Ottoman Settings -- Revisiting the Ayan and the Politics of Local Alliances -- "Europe" Encroaches on Epirus -- Alternative Trajectories since the 1820s -- Provisional Modernity: The Ottoman Context -- Disaggregating Balkan Polarities -- Conclusion -- 2 Repositioning Agency and the Forces of Change -- The Sociocultural Context of the Reformer -- Localizing Reform -- Reforming the Margins, Renaming the Agenda -- Reforming Home for the Empire -- Provisional Origins of Pashko Vasa's Shqyptarija -- Sami: The Patriarch of Tosk Cultural and Regional Elitism -- 3 The Compromised -- The Ottoman World Teeters on Destruction -- Opportunities out of Disaster -- The Sultan Reaches Out: Mehmed Ali Pasha's Mission -- Toskë Responding to the Post- Kosova Crisis -- Abdyl's Mission to Kosova -- Loyal Sami's Ottoman Vigil -- Bektashism and Tosk Exceptionalism -- Activism from Abroad -- Untitled -- Ismail Qemali Bey -- Conclusion -- 4 Exchange and Governance: Boundaries andthe Struggle to Define/Confine People -- A Modern World Repeatedly Refined -- The Kingdom of Serbia's Expansion into Niš -- Montenegro and Malësi -- The Malësorë -- Building the Montenegro State -- A Post- Ottoman Icon: Isa Boletini and Redefining the Balkans -- The 1908 Paradox -- Conclusion.

5 Learning the Wrong Lesson: Local Challenges toEducational Reform -- A History of Education Reform in the Ottoman Empire -- Native-born Reformer -- The Italian/Austro-Hungarian Rivalry -- Resisting Church and State: Co-opting "Education" -- Infiltrating the Imperial School -- The Indigenous School -- The 1908 Revolt and New Opportunities for Education -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Untitled -- Index.

This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyond conventional methods of studying "failed" empires - the emergence of ethnonationalism, sharpened class and gendered sectarian differences - and restates the need to guard against unnecessary anachronisms that have infused post-World War I state-centric historiography. The issues specific to the western Balkans constituted in 1820-1912 a confluence of autonomous, ever-shifting polities that constantly interacted with each other and the larger world in varying degrees through the filter of an Ottoman administration, resulting in new kinds of political and economic forces that ultimately account for a distinctive regional experience of modernity.