Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Key Ottoman Turkish and Bulgarian Terms
Note on Names, Transliterations, and Dates

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Eastern Crisis, Russia’s “Civilizing Mission” in the Balkans, and the Emergence of Eastern Rumelia
Chapter 2. Repatriation, Postwar Reconstruction, and the Limits of Pluralism in Eastern Rumelia
Chapter 3. An Experiment in Pluralistic Governance: Emigration and the Emergence of National Politics
Chapter 4. Anchoring Unified Bulgaria on “Muslim” Land
Chapter 5. Muslim Land vs. Bulgarian Labor: The Cost of Building a Modern Capitalist Nation
Chapter 6. Land, Nation, Minority
Chapter 7. Debating Community and Citizenship

Conclusion

Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Anna M. Mirkova is Assistant Professor of History at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Reviews

"The author focuses on the judicial issues concerning land holdings and transference during the period of the revived Bulgarian state, especially in the ephemeral region of Eastern Rumelia, which is now the southern area of Bulgaria. As a part of the issues of land ownership transference, the author also examines the wider consequences of the emigration of the Turkish and other Muslim minorities of Bulgaria to Turkey. This is an excellent study for those who wish to understand the legal processes by which the Bulgarian nationalist order replaced the imperial Ottoman establishment in the agricultural economy. Overall Mirkova demonstrates the determination of the revived Bulgarian state to maintain its authority over a system of land ownership based upon law and to use this authority to develop or modernize the agricultural segment of the economy, even if this law was not always exercised fairly to Bulgaria’s Muslim minorities."
*Slavic Review*