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Nation building as perception-building : the case study of the banknote in Greece and Turkey
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Florence : European University Institute, 2007
EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
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ROUBANIS, Ilia, Nation building as perception-building : the case study of the banknote in Greece and Turkey, Florence : European University Institute, 2007, EUI, SPS, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/7032
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This is a study of how and why nationality, as a perception of time, space, and political authority, was diffused in the Ottoman Empire, leading to its fragmentation into two nation state polities - namely, Greece and Turkey. These questions are addressed through the study of banknotes. In studying the process whereby the banknote became a territorial currency, which allowed the impersonal and catholic mediation of transactions across, yet only within, national territories, the banknote is treated as a 'window' to the normative alignment of a national community. In studying the banknote as a cultural artifact that empowers and at the same time delineates a protocol of social interaction - ie. economic exchange - the banknote is treated as a window to a process of ‘sign-alignment', namely the homogenization of cultural expression.
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Defence date: 13 March 2007
Examining Board: Prof. Michael Keating, EUI, Supervisor ; Prof. Bo Stråth, EUI ; Prof. Edhem Eldem, Bogaziçi University, Bebek-Instanbul ; Prof. Eric Helleiner, Trent University, Ontario
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Examining Board: Prof. Michael Keating, EUI, Supervisor ; Prof. Bo Stråth, EUI ; Prof. Edhem Eldem, Bogaziçi University, Bebek-Instanbul ; Prof. Eric Helleiner, Trent University, Ontario
PDF of thesis uploaded in restricted access from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses