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The Impact of Nationalism on Albanian–Slav Relations in Late Ottoman Macedonia: A Historiographical Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2019

Fabio Bego
Fabio Bego*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
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*Corresponding author. Email: bego.fabio@gmail.com
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Abstract

The aim of this article is to inquire how recent and more consolidated historiographical trends consider the impact of nationalism in the late Ottoman Balkans. I focus on historical accounts of Albanian–Slav interaction in the late Ottoman Macedonian context, although the inquiry also includes texts that do not only engage with this epistemological field. I confront research efforts that have been published from the early 1960s to the present in order to understand the continuities and the discontinuities that characterize the work of historians. A preliminary investigation has allowed me to outline two main historiographical approaches: the national historiographies and the postnationalist approach. Such a distinction has become tangible especially after the end of the Cold War when a new generation of historians started to question the validity of the studies conducted by their colleagues in the past decades by pointing at the methodological and ideological issues that limited their work. In this article I evaluate to what extent the work of postnationalist historians is different from that of traditional historiographies and finally reflect on the possibility and benefits that might come from a dialogue between the two approaches.

Keywords

AlbanianMacedonianSlavnationalismlate Ottoman Balkans
Type
Review Essay
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 47 , Issue 6 , November 2019 , pp. 1117 - 1130
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019

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