The Balkans Since 1453
The Balkans Since 1453

Author: Leften Stavros Stavrianos

Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1028

ISBN-13: 9781850655510

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This work aims to synthesize literature on Balkan topics since World War I, and demonstrate the importance of Balkan history by examining it in the context of European and world history. It uses imperial and local approaches, providing national histories as well as contextualising the subject.

The Balkans Since 1453
The Balkans Since 1453

Author: L.S. Stavrianos

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0814797660

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With a new introduction by TRAIAN STOIANOVICH A monumental work of scholarship, The Balkans Since 1453 stands as one of the great accomplishments of European historiography. Long out of print, Stavrianos' opus both synthesizes the existing literature of Balkan studies since World War I and demonstrates the centrality of the Balkans to both European and world history, a centrality painfully apparent in recent years. At last, the cornerstone book for every student of Balkan history, culture and politics is now available once again.

Balkan Strongmen
Balkan Strongmen

Author: Bernd Jürgen Fischer

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9781557534552

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Bernd J. Fischer has put together a collection that highlights the impact of Balkan leaders on nationalism, ethnic and sociocultural factors, economic frameworks, and other territorial dynamics that provided the undercurrents that were exposed during the Balkan's recent fragmentation.

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.