An Historical Survey of Literary Croatian
Author: Branko Franolic
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
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Kin
Author: Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 1939810523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.
Zagreb
Author: Celia Hawkesworth
Publisher: Signal Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781904955306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late sixteenth century. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards Zagreb developed steadily into a modern city, reflecting all the important trends in Central European culture, architecture and fashion. Its pretty centre is laid out according to a plan incorporating trees and public gardens, forming a "green horseshoe" lined with imposing buildings. Celia Hawkesworth explores this central core and the atmospheric old town on a rise above it, finding a mix of old and modern building, a rich cultural tradition and a vibrant outdoor cafe life, in which many of the individuals who have contributed to creating the city's unique inner life are commemorated in statues in the streets and squares.
Croatia
Author: Francis H. Eterovich
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1970-12-15
Total Pages: 717
ISBN-13: 1487596774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It examines the Croatian language, literature to 1835, the maritime history of the eastern Adriatic, Croatian political history from 1526 to 1918, the development of book printing, the ethnic and religious history of Bosnia and Hercegovina, the cultural achievement of Bosnian and Hercegovinian Muslims, and Croatian immigrants in North America. Each of the nine chapters in the book is written by a specialist and is accompanied by an extensive bibliography. Other special features of this volume are eleven historical maps of the region, a geographical map, sixteen pages of illustrations, and a glossary of geographical names. This reference work will be invaluable to libraries, and will be a useful source of information for historians, writers on Central European affairs, students of art and ethnic developments, and the layman interested in the Croatian people and their cultural history.
A Historical Outline of Literary Croatian
Author: Branko Franolić
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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Author: Tim Judah
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0300071132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia.
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Croatia
Author: Robert Stallaerts
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Dictionary of Croatia, Second Edition, describes the history of Croatia and illuminates the reasons the Croats have for establishing an independent state. Substantially updated and expanded, this second edition now includes both the whole reign of President Tudman and the first years of the Racan government. The political situation and prominent figures as well as an overview of the economic evolution and the legal infrastructure have been brought up to date and cover current events.
Under Eastern Eyes
Author: Wendy Bracewell
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789639776111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas? A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives
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Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13:
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Author: Jasna Čapo Zmegač
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0857453181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCroatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.
