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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood:
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Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia,1870-1990.
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When I say that histories have their own history,
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what I mean is the following.
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In this book, this anthropologist,
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who is from both Turkish and Greek extraction
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on either side of her family,
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is writing a book about a small part of Macedonia.
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Macedonia, of course, was heavily contested for centuries.
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In the middle a trade route went through it.
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In Macedonia there were Turks, and there were Serbs,
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and there were Bulgarians, and Macedonians, and Greeks.