TY - BOOK AU - Antonova-Goleva,Boriana AU - Masheva,Ivelina TI - Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century: Persons and Personalities As Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space T2 - Balkan Studies Library SN - 9783657760022 PY - 2024/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Balkan Peninsula-History-19th century KW - Fernzugriff KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Front Cover -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- Part I Introduction -- Agents of Modernization in Southeast Europe: State of the Art and the Contribution of the Present Volume -- Part II Foreign Agents of Institutional Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Urban Centres -- Michał Czajkowski/Sadık Pasha and His Ottoman Cossack Regiment as Agents of Modernization -- Ottoman Reformer, Foreign Expert, Political Commentator: Andreas David Mordtmann as Contributor to and Critic of Late Ottoman Modernization -- Prusyalı Emin Efendi (1813-1892): The Founding Director of the First Modern Law School (Mekteb-i Hukûk) in the Ottoman Empire -- Konstantin Jireček and the Outset of Modern Institutions in Bulgaria (1879-84) -- Part III Agents of Social and Cultural Modernization: Tradition, Modernity, and Nation-Building in Imperial and Post-Imperial Context -- Society, Technology, and Culture, or How the Balkans Meet Modernity -- A Thwarted Modernity? Ottoman Princes in the Nineteenth Century -- In Search of Modernity to the East: Bulgarian Students at Leading Educational Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Constantinople -- The Modern Influences in Healthcare and Hygiene and the Traditional Bulgarian Society in Salonica -- From Military Downfall to Rejuvenation: The Balkan Wars and the Vision of the Ottoman Nation's Rebirth -- Part IV Agents of Economic and Technological Modernization in the Ottoman Periphery -- Ottoman Merchants, Provincial Elites, and the Introduction of Modern Commercial Litigation in the Ottoman Balkans (1840s-50s) -- 'Public Benefit' Funds as a Result and an Instrument of Ottoman Мodernization -- Ottoman 'Infrastructure Governors' as Agents of Technological and Economic Modernization -- Foreign Technology and Local Agents of Modernization: The Rusçuk and Varna Railway Project as a Case Study for the Ottoman Modernization; List of Selected Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables, Graphs and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=31472342 ER -