The Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars

Author: Andre Gerolymatos

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0786724579

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When it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that consumes that ancient land today. Many assume that the genesis of the past ten years of atrocity in the region might have had something to do with Tito and his repressive Yugoslav regime, or perhaps with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The seeds were really planted much, much earlier, on a desolate plain in Kosovo in 1389, when the Serbian Prince Lazar and his army clashed with and were defeated by the Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad I. In this riveting new history of the Balkan peoples, Andréerolymatos explores how ancient events engendered cultural myths that evolved over time, gaining psychic strength in the collective consciousnesses of Orthodox Christians and Muslims alike. In colorful detail, we meet the key figures that instigated and perpetuated these myths-including the assassin/heroes Milos Obolic and Gavrilo Princip and the warlord Ali Pasha. This lively survey of centuries of strife finally puts the modern conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo into historical context, and provides a long overdue account of the origins of ethnic hatred and warmongering in this turbulent land.

Subalterns and Social Protest
Subalterns and Social Protest

Author: Stephanie Cronin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1134098103

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The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers: both major social classes and sectors the working class the peasantry the urban poor women marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover ‘the politics of the people’.

Brigands with a Cause
Brigands with a Cause

Author: Giannēs Koliopoulos

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Although some saw Greek brigands as no more than hardened criminals, to others they were veritable national heroes and avengers of social justice. Brigands with a CAuse examines brigandage and irredentism in Greece since the War of Independence, tracing the intimate links between the two, their impact on Greek politics and statecraft, and their influence on modern Greek identity and nationalism.

Cultures of Violence
Cultures of Violence

Author: S. Carroll

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-05-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0230591825

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Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.

Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven
Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven

Author: David M. Robinson

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780824823917

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To understand how this extraordinary meeting came about requires a consideration of the economy of violence during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Here, for the first time in any language, is a detailed look at the role of illicit violence during the Ming.".