Global Temperance and the Balkans American Missionaries, Swiss Scien
This book examines the local manifestation of the global temperance movement in the Balkans. It argues that regional histories of social movements in the modern period could not be sufficiently understood in isolation. Moreover, the book argues that broad
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Global Temperance and the Balkans
Nikolay Kamenov
Global Temperance and the Balkans American Missionaries, Swiss Scientists and Bulgarian Socialists, 1870–1940
Nikolay Kamenov The Graduate Institute Geneva Genève, Geneve, Switzerland
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Acknowledgments
First things first—in the German academic world convention demands that the first bow is directed at one’s Doktormutter/Doktorvater. My gratitude to Harald Fischer-Tiné, however, goes beyond the formality. His aid and guidance did not just help me earn a doctor title but also had a profound influence on my formation as a scholar. I am, indeed, immensely grateful. Further, during my doctoral studies at the ETH Zürich, I have relied extensively on the work and advice of Jana Tschuerenev. Many of the original ideas in this book were born in conversation with Jana with whom I have developed an enduring, post-temperance friendship. Nada Bosˆkovska proved to be an invaluable supervisor—I count myself privileged to have been able to tap in to her area expertise. I am grateful to my former colleagues Francesco Spöring and Sönke Bauck who also worked on the history of anti-alcohol movements and with whom many of the book’s themes have been discussed. In addition, squash games with the panther have taught me a degree of humility previously unbeknown to me. At an arm’s length (or more precisely an hour’s flight to Berlin) was my third supervisor Sebastian Conra
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