Blumi Isa. Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 273 p.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
Retrieving Historical Processes: Transitions to 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 PolaritiesRepositioning 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 ElitismThe Compromised Empire: Ethnicity and Faith under State Power
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
Ismail Qemali BeyExchange and Governance: Boundaries and the 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 ParadoxLearning the Wrong Lesson: Local Challenges to Educational 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 EducationRecapping the Story
Notes