The Serbians
Author : Paul Pavlovich
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
ISBN :
Author : Paul Pavlovich
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Bosnia and Hercegovina
ISBN :
Author : Vojislav M. Petrović
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Serbia
ISBN :
Author : Tim Judah
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300071132
History, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia.
Author : Marie-Janine Calic
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612495648
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended process, undertaken from a variety of different regional perspectives with varied composite agenda. She shuns traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for Yugoslavia’s demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of differences. While analyzing nuanced political and social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way. As a result, her groundbreaking work provides scholars and learned readers alike with an accessible, trenchant, and authoritative introduction to Yugoslavia's complex history.
Author : Sima M. Cirkovic
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 140514291X
This sweeping history of the Serbian people starts with the settlement of the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula in the seventh century and ends with the dissolution of Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century. A comprehensive survey of the development of the Serbian nation. Provides the background history of the Serbs, essential to understanding their current situation. Traces the history of the Serbian people from the seventh through to the late twentieth century. Focuses on the process of integration and disintegration which have characterised Serbian history. Pays detailed attention to socio-economic history.
Author : Tim Judah
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300085075
Who are the Serbs? Branded by some as Europe's new Nazis, they are seen by others—and by themselves—as the innocent victims of nationalist aggression and of an implacably hostile world media. In this challenging new book, Timothy Judah, who covered the war years in former Yugoslavia for the London Times and the Economist, argues that neither is true. Exploring the Serbian nation from the great epics of its past to the battlefields of Bosnia and the backstreets of Kosovo, he sets the fate of the Serbs within the story of their past. This wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account opens with the windswept fortresses of medieval kings and a battle lost more than six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. Judah describes the idea of "Serbdom" that sustained them during centuries of Ottoman rule, the days of glory during the First World War, and the genocide against them during the Second. He examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its unraveling after his death. And he reveals how Slobodan Milosevic, later to become president, used a version of history to drive his people to nationalist euphoria. Judah details the way Milosevic prepared for war and provides gripping eyewitness accounts of wartime horrors: the burning villages and "ethnic cleansing," the ignominy of the siege of Sarajevo, and the columns of bedraggled Serb refugees, cynically manipulated and then abandoned once the dream of a Greater Serbia was lost. This first in-depth account of life behind Serbian lines is not an apologia but a scrupulous explanation of how the people of a modernizing European state could become among the most reviled of the century. Rejecting the stereotypical image of a bloodthirsty nation, Judah makes the Serbs comprehensible by placing them within the context of their history and their hopes.
Author : Vesna Pešić
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nationalism
ISBN :
Author : Maksim Vasiljević
Publisher :
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9788682685395
Author : Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0822956098
In the early nineteenth century Serb scholar Vuk Karadzic collected and published now classic transcriptions of Balkan oral poetry. This edition, by taking great care to preserve the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry as well as the idiom of the original singers, offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English.
Author : Stanoje Stanojević
Publisher :
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Croatia
ISBN : 9788684077365