The Rose of the Balkans
Author: Ivan Ilchev
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13:
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Sarajevo Rose
Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the movements of the Sephardic Jews to the Balkans - following their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition - Schwartz draws on place names, historical chronicles, epitaphs, folk ballads, banned books and the media. He explores these communities who, hundreds of years after forced exile, were almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust.
The Balkans
Author: Mark Biondich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0199299056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, reminding us that political violence and ethnic cleansing are hardly unique to this region.
The Revival of Islam in the Balkans
Author: Olivier Roy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1137517840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith communities as well as the evolution of Islam in the broader European context.
The Modern Balkans
Author: Richard C. Hall
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1780230060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Europe by culture, politics, and economics, the Balkans have slowly been integrating into Western Europe since the nineteenth century. But this process of economic and political development, following the Western European model, has been far from smooth in the Balkans. As Hall explains, it has often been marked by violence and destruction, the result of many wars and rebellions. Though Soviet power imposed a nearly fifty-year peace in the region, the collapse of the Soviet Union renewed conflict that continued through the end of the twentieth century. Hall concentrates here on the significant political and economic events that have had the greatest impact on the role of the Balkans in Europe; in particular, he examines the development of national states in the nineteenth century, the influence of the two world wars, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. This clear and concise history of the Balkan Peninsula will appeal to readers and scholars interested in European history and the Balkans’ unique role in it.
The Rise of Nationality in the Balkans
Author: Robert William Seton-Watson
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania
Author: Mike Ormsby
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781477465363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK57 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.
Bosnia the Good
Author: Rusmir Mahmut?ehaji?
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789639116870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn indictment of the partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina, formalized in 1995 by the Dayton Accord. The war in Bosnia divided and shook the country to its foundations, but the author argues it could become a model for European progress. The greatest danger for Bosnia is to be declared just another ethnoreligious entity, in this case a 'Muslim State' ghettoized inside Europe. The author examines why Western liberal democracies have regarded with sympathy the struggles of Serbia and Croatia for national recognition, while viewing Bosnia's multicultural society with suspicion.
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307431967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout 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.
The Balkans: Foreign Direct Investment and EU Accession
Author: Aristidis Bitzenis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1317040651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fall of communism and subsequent developments have put a renewed spotlight on the potential of the Balkan economies. Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia & Montenegro, Romania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are countries which have attracted low levels of investment and poor political leadership in most of the countries has delayed much needed reforms. However, there are now signs of improvement and this timely book fills a significant gap in the available literature. Demonstrating that these countries must engage as fully as possible with the world economy via EU accession, this book explores the implications of the specific characteristics of these countries which have made the transition process more difficult. This exciting new volume is valuable reading for students, academics and business professionals interested in international development in the Balkans.
