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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.
Contents
List of Maps
Preface
1. The Prespa Lakes: Ecology and Human Settlement
2. Prespa Lake Communities from Prehistory to the Ottoman Conquest
3. The Lake Communities in the Ottoman Empire, 1380-1863
4. Prespa and the Struggle for Ottoman Macedonia, 1863-1914
5. 1914 to 1923: New Nations and New Borders Divide the Lakes
6. Nivica becomes Psarades: The Construction of Greek Macedonia, 1924-1939
7. Prespa under the Axis Occupation, 1939-194
8. Freedom and Civil Conflcit, 1945-1949: The Centrality of Prespa
9. Exile and Return: The Cold War Years, 1950-1990
10. The Prespa Lakes: Peace and Environmental Crisis, 1991-2018
Appendix I. Place Name Usage in Late Ottoman and 20th Century Prespa
Appendix II. Religious and Ethnic Identities in Prespa Villages in FYROM/RM
Appendix III. Some Non-Greek Terms Relating to Prespa Village Toponyms
Bibliography
Index
