A HISTORY OF BULGARIA 1393-1885

London:George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1962). 354pp. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very good, clean condition save for a penciled bookseller notation on the last free end-page. Externally, save for a bit of sun-fading to the very top edge, the red boards are clean and bright. Dust jacket is faded at spine, but otherwise in very good condition. *"A History of Bulgaria 1393-1885 deals with the relatively unknown period of the Turkish yoke, and much of the material now appears in English for the first time. The subjects covered include Turkish methods of administration, the economic development of Bulgaria, the growth of schools and modern education, the history of the Bulgarian Press, literature and arts, the long struggle for independence waged by the Bulgarian Church against the Greek Patriarchate, the reactions of the Bulgarians themselves to the provisions made for them at the Congress of Berlin, and their return to normanl political life after five centuries of virtual national extinction."