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Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia

By Keith Brown

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0253008352, 9780253008350
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2230601 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
256\282
Time added
2020-02-01 20:01:34

Description

The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror–webs of secret communications and bonds of solidarity–that linked migrant workers, remote villagers, and their leaders in common cause. Loyalties were covertly created and maintained through acts of oath-taking, record-keeping, arms-trading, and in the use and management of deadly violence.

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