Institution Building and Research under Foreign Domination Europe and the Black Sea Region (early 19th – early 20th centuries)

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This volume represents the second collective product of the Horizon 2020 Research Project on Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the Humanities. Europe and the Black Sea Region. The contributions included herein were initially presented and discussed at a two-day conference held in 2018 at the International Hellenic University of Thessaloniki, and updated for the purposes of this publication. In 2018, Dominik Gutmeyr and Karl Kaser published a first volume on Europe and the Black Sea Region. A History of Early Knowledge Exchange (1750-1850). The contents of that first volume discussed the initial stages of the European “expedition” in the Black Sea, a period which may be largely characterized by superficial perceptions of this area not yet considered part of Europe. The authors of this volume focus on the second phase of the European intervention in the Black Sea Region (BSR), mainly during the 19th century, when the exchange of knowledge between the East and the West became more intense as a result of the opposing political interests of the Great Powers in their effort to penetrate the Ottoman Empire. This was the era of the Eastern Question, the gradual decline of the Ottoman Empire and the transformation of the Black Sea from a “Turkish lake” to an international trade area. The authors deal with the two dominant Empires around the Black Sea during the “era of Modernity”, the Ottoman and the Russian. The history of both Empires highlights aspects of the process of institution building, especially in the fields of religion and education, at a period when ethnic groups and minorities strove for national emancipation. Cover Contents Iakovos D. Michailidis & Giorgos Antoniou - Preface Iakovos D. Michailidis - Modernizing the Empire: The Ottoman Empire after the Tanzimat Period. Aspects of a failed experiment Dominik Gutmeyr - Institutionalising Knowledge and Circulating Imagery: 19th-century Britain’s Encounter with the Russian Empire’s Borderlands Stavris Parastatov - Cultural Exchange in the Black Sea Region: Greek Migration to the Russian Empire in the 19th century Anastasiya Pashova & Petar Vodenicharov - “The New Women” – the First Professional Intellectual Organization of Women in Russia Milena Angelova - Тhe Transfer of Modern Agricultural Knowledge among the Bulgarians in the Danube Province (1860s – 1870s) Dragos Jipa - The Making of the “French Influence”. Pompiliu Eliade and the Production of Historical Knowledge between France and Romania in the late 19th century Adrian Stoicescu - Negotiation of Foreign Models in the Romanian Principalities Ion Gumenâi - Parochial Schools of Religious Minorities as a Tool for Preserving National Identity and Cultural Ties between the Diaspora and the Historical Homeland Greta Nikoghosyan - The Role of Murad Rafaelian College (1834-1998) in the Development of Armenian Studies and Institution Building Nargiz F. Akhundova - The Contribution of Azerbaijani Enlighteners to Oriental Studies in the 19th century (Turkology, Sufism, and Safavid Studies) Shamil Rahmanzade - Influence of the Ideas of the European New Age on the Formation of Modernizing Social Thought in Azerbaijan (19th century) Irada Baghirova - The Educational Movement in Azerbaijan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Lela Tavdgiridze & Ia Khasaia - Teacher Training Courses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Georgia Manuchar Loria & Zurab Bezhanovi - The Development of Ethnographic Thinking and the Formation of Visual Anthropology in Georgia in the 19th and the beginning of 20th century Contributors Backcover