Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy

Victor Roudometof is associate professor of sociology at the University of Cyprus. He has also held positions with Princeton University, the American College of Thessaloniki (Greece), Washington and Lee University, and Miami University. He is the author or editor of 17 books and edited volumes on culture, religion, nationalism, and globalization.

• Foreword by Roland RobertsonIntroduction: Nationalism, Globalization, and Modernity in the Balkans: A World-Historical PerspectiveA Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part I)A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions (Part II)The Pursuit of CitizenshipInvented Traditions, Symbolic Boundaries, and National Identity in Greece and Serbia 1830-1880The Latecomers, Nationalism in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and AlbaniaThe Articulation of Irredentism in Balkan Politics 1880-1920The Consequences of Modernity: National Homogenization and the Minority QuestionThe Balkans in a Global AgeConclusionsBibliographical NoteReferencesIndex

Provides a welcome corrective to the stubbornly held view (even in some academic circles) that primordial attachments and 'ancient ethnic hatreds' have shaped much of recent Balkan history ... [a] scintillating conclusion draws the main threads of his thesis together with great lucidity.