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Lakes and empires in Macedonian history, contesting the waters, James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Lakes and empires in Macedonian history

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James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers

Bloomsbury eBooks.

contesting the waters

"Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet remains unconventional in its way of life, embodies the many contradictions of modern history and in exploring its roots James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region. Drawing from oral testimonies and attentive to the construction of national histories, this book considers how the development of international borders, movement of people and role of national identities within imperial borderlands shaped Macedonia today. What is more, by centering the lakes and making use of an innovative environmental historical methodology, Pettifer and Vickers offer the first environmental history of this multi-ethnic borderland region shared by Greece, North Macedonia and Albania. The result is a nuanced and sophisticated transnational account of Macedonia from prehistory to the 21st century which will be essential reading for all Balkan scholars"--, Provided by publisher

The Prespa Lakes : ecology and human settlement -- The Prespa Lake communities from prehistory to the Ottoman conquest -- The lake communities in the Ottoman Empire 1380-1863 -- Prespa and the struggle for Ottoman Macedonia 1863-1914 -- 1914 to 1923 : new nations and new borders divide the lakes -- Nivica becomes Psarades : the construction of Greek Macedonia 1924-1939 -- Prespa under Axis occupation 1939-1944 -- Freedom and civil conflict 1945-1949 : the centrality of Prespa -- Exile and return : the Cold War years 1950-1990 -- The Prespa Lakes : peace and environmental crisis 1991-2018