An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade

Author: Mileta Prodanović

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2023-07-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9633866316

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This grand illustrated essay depicts the devolution of Serbia’s capital during the exceptionally difficult years of Slobodan Milošević’s rule. An interwoven fabric of facts, reflections, insights, and photographs presents Belgrade in a portrait as imaginative and unique as this city’s culture and life are. Integrating cultural anthropology, the history of art and architecture, urban studies and political commentary, Prodanović analyses changes to the city’s visual environment during the 1990s which reveal the impact of deeper social forces. Many aspects of life are covered, some with great ingenuity: the transition from socialism to shopping centers, unregulated construction and modifications of buildings, the redesign of banknotes during hyperinflation, political campaigns and organized campaigns of defacement, beer labels, religious icons in shop windows, graffiti, kitsch, “celebrity charlatans” on TV, gangsters’ tombstones, boondoggles such as an international art center, and much more. All this information is presented with astute analysis from a local perspective and not a little humor.

Belgrade
Belgrade

Author: David A. Norris

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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Travel and history.

Hot Spots and Dodgy Places
Hot Spots and Dodgy Places

Author: Tan Wee Cheng

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9812619690

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He visits a bizarre flower-show in Pyongyang, crosses confusing ethno-religious fault lines in the Balkans and Lebanon, drinks tea with friendly Yemenis near Osama bin Laden’s ancestral village, explores prehistoric caves with Tuareg tribesmen in Libya, and plays Indiana Jones among pyramids shortly after a rebel attack on Khartoum. Through long-forgotten characters, bizarre coincidences of history and personal stories of individuals he encountered, Wee Cheng turns faraway lands alive, and convinces the reader that these are more than just places in the news.

Funerary Practices in Serbia
Funerary Practices in Serbia

Author: Aleksandra Pavićević

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-02-19

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1787691810

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Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. It explores the historical roots of contemporary funerary practices in the country and provides illuminating insight into how death is "managed" in Serbia today.

The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States
The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States

Author: S. Keil

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1137384131

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The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s. This book analyzes the foreign policies of the post-Yugoslav states, thereby focusing on the main goals, actors, decision-making processes and influences on the foreign policies of these countries.

Zagreb
Zagreb

Author: Celia Hawkesworth

Publisher: Signal Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781904955306

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Situated 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.