The Romance Balkans
Author : Biljana Sikimić
Publisher : Balkanološki institut SANU
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8671790606
Author : Biljana Sikimić
Publisher : Balkanološki institut SANU
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8671790606
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004456171
This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.
Author : M. E. Durham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Learn more about Balkan politics in the early 20th century through M.E. Durham's 'Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle'. This fast-paced historical account brings to life the intrigues, backstabbing, and power struggles that defined the region from 1900 to 1920. Follow along as Durham delves into the history of Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, unraveling the events leading up to the thunderous eruption of World War I. From the Greater Serbian ideology to the insurrection of the Catholics, every chapter in this book is must-read for history buffs.
Author : Misha Glenny
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0142422568
A newly revised and updated edition of an award-winning BBC correspondent's magisterial history of the Balkan region This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to more than one hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Now updated to include the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the capture of all indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav wars, and each state's quest for legitimacy in the European Union, The Balkans explores the often catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention.
Author : Alan Furst
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812977386
Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. As Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Balkans, spies begin to circle—and Costa Zannis, a senior police official, must deal with them all. He is soon in the game, working to secure an escape route for fugitives from Nazi Berlin that is protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters—and hunted by the Gestapo. Meanwhile, as war threatens, the erotic life of the city grows passionate. For Zannis, that means a British expatriate who owns the local ballet academy, a woman from the dark side of Salonika society, and the wife of a shipping magnate. With extraordinary historical detail and a superb cast of characters, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to fight back against the world’s evil.
Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307431967
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's tinderbox and a seething cauldron of ethnic and religious resentments. Much has been made of the Balkans' deeply rooted enmities. The recent destruction of the former Yugoslavia was widely ascribed to millennial hatreds frozen by the Cold War and unleashed with the fall of communism. In this brilliant account, acclaimed historian Mark Mazower argues that such a view is a dangerously unbalanced fantasy. A landmark reassessment, The Balkans rescues the region's history from the various ideological camps that have held it hostage for their own ends, not least the need to justify nonintervention. The heart of the book deals with events from the emergence of the nation-state onward. With searing eloquence, Mazower demonstrates that of all the gifts bequeathed to the region by modernity, the most dubious has been the ideological weapon of romantic nationalism that has been used again and again by the power hungry as an acid to dissolve the bonds of centuries of peaceful coexistence. The Balkans is a magnificent depiction of a vitally important region, its history and its prospects.
Author : Frank Mackenzie Savile
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Mike Ormsby
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Romania
ISBN : 9781477465363
57 bittersweet stories offering a unique glimpse of this irresistible and enthralling country, where locals say, "Ca la noi, la nimeni. There's nobody quite like us." Ormsby's colourful characters will entertain, educate and enrage. It usually depends on who is reading. Close your guide book, meet the people.
Author : Laura Daintrey
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1895
Category :
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Author : D. Hupchick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0312299133
The tragedies of Bosnia and Kosovo are often explained away as the unchangeable legacy of 'centuries-old hatreds'. In this richly detailed, expertly balanced chronicle of the Balkans across fifteen centuries, Hupchick sets a complicated record straight. Organized around the three great civilizations of the region - Western European, Orthodox Christian and Muslim - this is a much-needed guide to the political, social, cultural and religious threads of Balkan history, with a clear, convincing account of the reasons for nationalist violence and terror.