TY - BOOK AU - Asboth,Eva Tamara ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850–1918: Historical Balkan narratives supported by Felix Philipp Kanitz, Mary Edith Durham, and Mihailo Pupin in the transnational public sphere T2 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, SN - 9783031691805 AV - D203.2-475 U1 - 940.903 23 PY - 2025/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Europe KW - History KW - 1492- KW - Russia KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Soviet Union KW - World history KW - History of Modern Europe KW - Russian, Soviet, and East European History KW - World History, Global and Transnational History N1 - Chapter 1. The “European Orient”: Forerunner of the Balkans -- Chapter 2. The Gateway to Another World: Oriental Studies in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3. “Illuminating the Darkness”: Surveying the European Orient and Localizing the Balkans -- Chapter 4. Painted by Numbers: Ethnographic Maps -- Chapter 5. Oriental or Enchanted? The Serbian Culture Experienced and Transmitted by Felix Philipp Kanitz -- Chapter 6. The “Stepchild” of the European Family: Emancipation and Democratization Processes in Serbia -- Chapter 7. Blackguardism and Underground Organization: The Topic of War Guilt From the First World War -- Chapter 8. New York, 1918: Kossovo Day -- Chapter 9. Conclusions: Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives of the “Balkans”; Open Access N2 - This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through political, social and cultural exchanges. Instead, it develops the concept of a 'European Orient' to highlight how the position of the western Balkans shifted in the European imagination during this period. It investigates specific examples of cultural encounters involving travellers and migrants between South-east Europe and the West, and situates these developments in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century geopolitics. In doing so, it shows how European scholars as well as US-migrants from South-east Europe constructed a historiography of the region, and will be of interest to historians interested in the Balkans in particular and south-eastern Europe in general UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69180-5 ER -