Oxford ; Bern : Peter Lang, c2014.

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Nationalisms across the globe ; v. 15

Nationalisms across the globe ; v. 15.

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Includes bibligraphical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Delineating the Playing Field: Virtual Borders and Imagined Geographies; 1.1 Focus of the Study; 1.2 The Puzzle of Shifting Borders in the National Imagination; 1.3 Elite Clashes and International Constraints in Determining Border Shifts; 1.4 Importance of the Study; 1.5 Tracking Causes and Variables; 1.6 Plan of the Book; Chapter 2: Boundary Mapping and Territorialization of Identity; 2.1 Existing Theories of Nationalism and How They Explain Borders; 2.2 A Theoretical Framework of Virtual Border Shifts

2.3 Delineating Borders in Nationalist Discourse and a Nation's Mental Mapping2.4 The Two Overlapping Maps of the Albanian Nation; 2.4.1 External Constraints During the Mapping of Virtual Borders; 2.4.2 Domestic Political Competition and (Re)drawing of the National Map; Chapter 3: From Nation-Building to State Formation: How Virtual Mapping Intersected with Recognized Borders in the Albanian Imagination; 3.1 Albanian Identity Construction and How It Mapped onto Territory Pre-1880

3.2 The Map Resulting from Albanian Elite Struggles During the Years 1878-1899 and 1911-1912: Hypotheses and Predictions3.3 The Mapping of Albanian Boundaries From the League of Prizren to Independence; 3.4 Great Powers Geopolitics and Its Effect on Shaping the Newly Created Albania's Borders: Shifts from 1912 to 1917; 3.5 Elite Struggles, Ethnic Underbidding and Map Contraction from 1912 to 1917; 3.6 National Borders as Perceived by the Masses on Both Sides of the Border from 1878 to the First World War

3.7 Elite Struggles, Ethnic Underbidding and Map Contraction from 1912 to the First World War Among the Albanian EliteChapter 4: The Interwar Period and the Shifting of Virtual Borders at Elite and Mass Level in Albania and Abroad: From Contractionary to Expansionary and Vice-Versa; 4.1 External Constraints on the Albanians in the Interwar Years and the Effects on Map Weaving; 4.2 Elite Struggles and the Outcome for the Albanian Map in the Interwar Period; 4.3 Imagined National Borders: "Bottom-Up" Changes in Map Perception in the Interwar Period

4.4 The Imagined Nation Among the Ethnic Kin: The Expansionary Map in Kosovo in the Interwar Period4.5 Conclusion; Chapter 5: From "Greater Albania" During the Second World War to Contractionary Borders in the Communist Era; 5.1 Direct International Intervention During the Second World War and the Redrawing of the Map to Create "Greater Albania"; 5.2 Elite Struggles and the Irredentist Outcome; 5.3 Principal Map Shifts During the Early Communist Period in Albania and Their Impact on Visualizing the Nation's Borders

5.4 Consolidation of National Communism in Albania and Its Effects on the Imagined Map and the Visualization of Borders

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Albanians -- Ethnic identity.

Elite (Social sciences) -- Albania.

National characteristics, Albanian.

Territory, National -- Albania.

Albania -- Boundaries.

Albania -- Historical geography.

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