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- Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: New Anthropologies of Europe
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Note on Sources
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Chronology of Key Orienting Dates
- pp. xix-xx
- Bibliography
- pp. 233-254
- About the Author
- p. 282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253008473
Related ISBN(s)
9780253008350, 9780253008404
MARC Record
OCLC
840267123
Pages
282
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-12
Language
English
Open Access
No