WEEK 3 -- 24 January -- NATIONALISMS I: Awakenings?
- Mazower 77-111 ("Eastern Questions")
- Lampe 39-70 ("Unifying Aspirations and Rural Resistance, 1804-1903")
- Allcock 311-50 ("The Forging of National Identity"); 145-61 recommended (from "The Movement of Population")
- A. Smith, "National Identities: Modern and Medieval?" in S. Forde, et al., eds., Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages (1995), 21-46
- M. Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe (1985), 22-30
- G. Stokes, "The Absence of Nationalism in Serbian Politics before 1840," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism (1977): 77-90
- E. Despalatovic and P. Adler, "Illyrianism," Balkanistica (1974): 75-101
- Selection of primary sources: (1) Gaj (from E. Despalatovic, Ljudevit Gaj and the Illyrian Movement [1975], 40-61); (2) late-18th/early-19th-century Serbia
In Mazower, Lampe and Allcock, concentrate on the first half of the 19th century (we’ll discuss the second half more in week 4).
What is national identity? What is nationalism? When can we date their origins? How do different scholars address these questions? How did people of the period think of them?
Adapting Hroch’s title: What were the social conditions during the "national revivals" of Serbs and Croats? Political conditions? How do these conditions vary across the South Slav lands?
What was the role of language in the movements led by Ljudevit Gaj and Vuk Karadzic? What were their aims, and how did they and other intellectuals "imagine the nation"?