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Author Duančić, Vedran

Title Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia by Vedran Duančić
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe, 2523-7985
Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe, 2523-7985
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Emerging Geographical Network In Yugoslavia -- Chapter 3: Jovan Cvijić And The Anthropogeography Of The Balkans -- Chapter 4: Geographical Narration Of Yugoslavia After 1918 -- Chapter 5: Geopolitical Visions Of Yugoslavia -- Chapter 6: The Fight of Filip Lukas Against Yugoslavia -- Chapter 7: Conclusion
Summary This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia - a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works describing interwar Yugoslavia, the book focuses on the engagement of geographers in the on-going political conflict over the national question. Duančić shows that geographers were uniquely equipped to address the creation of the new country and the numerous problems it faced, as they provided accounts of Yugoslavia's past, present, and even future, all of which were understood as inherently embedded in geography. By analyzing a large body of geographical narratives on the Yugoslav state, the book follows both the attempts to "naturalize" and present Yugoslavia as a sustainable political and cultural unit, as well as the attempts to challenge its existence by pointing to unresolvable, geographically conditioned tensions within it. The book approaches geographical discourse in Yugoslavia as part of a wider European scientific network, pointing to similarities and specifically Yugoslav characteristics.-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Nationalism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Geography -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century
Geography
Historical geography
Nationalism
SUBJECT Yugoslavia -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149473
Yugoslavia -- Historical geography
Subject Yugoslavia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030502591
3030502597