{"id":172,"date":"2020-01-01T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-01-06T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T07:59:20","slug":"4-12-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/2020\/01\/01\/4-12-19\/","title":{"rendered":"5\/2\/20 Alex Drace-Francis &#8211; The Politics of Recognition: Identity and Misidentification in Romanian Encounters in Europe, 1825-1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Paper Abstract<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>As is well known, a Romanian national movement developed in the nineteenth century, as a process accompanying the formation of an independent state alongside several others in Central and Southeastern Europe. Independence involved international recognition by Europe\u2019s \u2018Great Powers\u2019 on the level of international politics; but is also reflected in the personal experiences of Romanians who sought through travel and education to place themselves, both literally and figuratively, in \u2018the Great European Family\u2019. Travellers often reported being misidentified as Slavs, Turks, Russians or other as nationalities, and adopted different strategies to cope with this, be they of indignation, irony, imitation or indifference. Based on a broad selection of accounts of travels to Britain, France and Germany in the period 1825-1900, this paper will try to show the importance of both travel and writing to identity formation, understood as a rhetorical process in relation to, and sometimes in rejection of, European norms and templates.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"0.45020375924633593\" class=\"highlight\">Alex<\/span> <span id=\"0.9176962036325438\" class=\"highlight\">Drace<\/span>&#8211;<span id=\"0.029352964914222346\" class=\"highlight\">Francis<\/span> is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published books on Romanian political and cultural development, on European travel writing, and on the history of the idea of Europe. Most recently he contributed to the&nbsp;<i>Routledge History of East-Central Europe<\/i>&nbsp;(2017)<i><\/i>, to the<i>Cambridge History of Travel Writing<\/i>&nbsp;(2019) and to the volume&nbsp;<i>Keywords in Travel Writing&nbsp;<\/i>(both 2019).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/files\/2018\/06\/Alex-Drace-Francis-Profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/files\/2018\/06\/Alex-Drace-Francis-Profile-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/files\/2018\/06\/Alex-Drace-Francis-Profile-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moderneeuropeanhistory\/files\/2018\/06\/Alex-Drace-Francis-Profile.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Abstract As is well known, a Romanian national movement developed in the nineteenth century, as a process accompanying the formation of an independent state alongside several others in Central and Southeastern Europe. 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