Loyal Unto Death
Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
Nonfiction, History, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
| Author: | Keith Brown | ISBN: | 9780253008473 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press | Publication: | April 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Indiana University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Keith Brown |
| ISBN: | 9780253008473 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Publication: | April 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Indiana University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
