| Description |
1 online resource (x, 332 pages) |
| Contents |
Beyond Stereotypes: Recent Trends in the Historiography on the Balkans / John R. Lampe and Constantin Iordachi -- The Ottoman Balkans and Nation-Building / Roumiana Preshlenova and Vangelis Kechriotis -- Struggling with State-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia / Vjeran Pavlaković and Vladan Jovanović -- Irregular Violence: Bandits, Guerillas, and Militias / James Frusetta and Stefan Sotiris Papaioannou -- European Influence and Reaction: Economics and Culture / John R. Lampe and Roumiana Preshlenova -- The Jews and Other Minorities during World War II / Constantin Iordachi and James Frusetta |
| Summary |
"The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations, both local and external. In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on a set of five principal controversies from the precommunist period with which the region's history and historiography must contend: (1) the pre-1914 Ottoman and Eastern Christian Orthodox legacies; (2) the post-1918 struggles for state-building; (3) the range of European economic and cultural influence across the interwar period, as opposed to diplomatic or political intervention; (4) the role of violence and paramilitary forces in challenging the interwar political regimes in the region; and (5) the fate of ethnic minorities into and after World War II, particularly Jews, Muslims and Roma. In an attempt to give a voice to eminent local authors, the chapters provide samples of new regional scholarship exploring these contested issues--most of them translated into English for the first time--and are prefaced with historiographical overviews addressing the state of the debate on these specific controversies. These translations help bridge the language barriers that often separate scholarly traditions within Southeast Europe, as well as scholars in Southeast Europe and English-speaking academia. It is hoped that the volume will enable readers to identify common patterns and influences that characterize the writing of history in the region, and will stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to the history of the Balkans."-- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography
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Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
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Balkan Peninsula -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Balkan Peninsula
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lampe, John R., editor.
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Iordachi, Constantin, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019011868 |
| ISBN |
9633863260 |
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9789633863268 |
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