'Cultural Intimacy' reveals that every nation-state has its own 'dirty laundry'. In this book, the authors looks at what constitutes 'dirty laundry' and what makes it 'dirty'. The author draws on his own extensive fieldwork in Greece.
'Cultural Intimacy' reveals that every nation-state has its own 'dirty laundry'. In this book, the authors looks at what constitutes 'dirty laundry' and what makes it 'dirty'. The author draws on his own extensive fieldwork in Greece.
"In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them."--Jacket
"In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them."--Jacket.
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state …