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The Balkans In World History
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Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-05
The Balkans In World History written by Andrew Baruch Wachtel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with History categories.
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.
The Balkans In World History
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Author : Andrew Wachtel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2008
The Balkans In World History written by Andrew Wachtel and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening but ill-defined space. Most attempts at definition focus on geography (the actual mountain range that gives the area its name and the lands surrounding it) or, more recently, on the set of prejudicesattached to the term by local and outside observers. There has been far less concern with attempting to define this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point not geography as such but rather the cultural, historical, and social threads that could allow us to see what might be merelycontiguous places as a coherent, though complex, whole. The goal of this volume is to do precisely that. The Balkans should probably be defined as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce acomplex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans can be seen as a history ofcreative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Each civilization has thus been hybridized, modified, and amplified by other voices and traditions.
The Balkans In World History
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Author : Andrew Wachtel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Balkans In World History written by Andrew Wachtel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening but ill-defined space. Most attempts at definition focus on geography (the actual mountain range that gives the area its name and the lands surrounding it) or, more recently, on the set of prejudices attached to the term by local and outside observers. There has been far less concern with attempting to define this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point not geography as such but rather the cultural, historical, and social threads that could allow us to see what might be merely contiguous places as a coherent, though complex, whole. The goal of this volume is to do precisely that.
History Of The Balkans Volume 2
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Author : Barbara Jelavich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-29
History Of The Balkans Volume 2 written by Barbara Jelavich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-29 with History categories.
This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, focusing particularly on Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia since 1945.
The Balkans
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Author : William Milligan Sloane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
The Balkans written by William Milligan Sloane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
The Balkans And The Near East
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Author : Karl Kaser
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2011
The Balkans And The Near East written by Karl Kaser and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
The Balkans and the Near East share millennia of a joint history, which stretches from the settling of man to the 20th century. The task split between the various scholarly disciplines into the fields of Balkan studies and Near (Middle) East studies has resulted in dividing a shared history into various sub-histories. This book reunites these isolated histories, opening up completely new historical perspectives. (Series: Studies on South East Europe - Vol. 12)
The Balkans
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Balkans written by Mark Mazower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
"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. Mark Mazower argues that such a view is a dangerously unbalanced fantasy. A 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. 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 depiction of a vitally important region, its history and its prospects."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Balkans Since 1453
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Author : Leften Stavros Stavrianos
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2000
The Balkans Since 1453 written by Leften Stavros Stavrianos and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
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.
A History Of The Balkans 1804 1945
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Author : Stevan K. Pavlowitch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
A History Of The Balkans 1804 1945 written by Stevan K. Pavlowitch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with History categories.
The Balkans have often been a flashpoint of conflict in European history. The recent civil war has torn the country apart and the region faces an uncertain future. This authoritative study provides an account of the history of the whole area from the first major nationalist rising against its Ottoman rulers in 1804 to the aftermath of World War II. Covering the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania , it provides a Balkan-wide overview as well as histories of specific states and sets the context to the recent conflict.
The Balkans
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Author : Arnold Toynbee
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The Balkans written by Arnold Toynbee and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with History categories.
The Balcans is a historical overview of the development of statehood of the countries of the Balcan peninsula. The book starts with a brief summary of the history of these lands from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD and gives a more detailed and extended historical account by country starting from 6th century AD and forth up to the times of the creation of this work.