Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia

by Keith Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253008409
• ISBN13: 9780253008404
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher