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The Serbs : history, myth and the destruction of Yugoslavia / Tim Judah.
LIBRA DR1965 .J83 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Judah, Tim, 1962-
- Series:
- Yale Nota bene
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Serbia--History.
- Serbia.
- History.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Yugoslavia--Serbia.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 382 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- History, myth and the destruction of Yugoslavia
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Journalist Tim Judah witnessed firsthand many of the most horrifying episodes of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Judah offers here a history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present, combining a gripping personal description of the war with a skillful analysis of the historical and cultural context out of which it emerged. For this new paperback edition Judah adds observations on the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the war in Kosovo, and NATO's 78-day bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.
- Contents:
- 1 Death Does Not Exist 1
- Migrations
- The Arrival of the Slavs
- The First Kingdoms
- The Arrival of the Turks
- The Military Frontier
- 2 An Empire on Earth 17
- Birth of a Dynasty
- The Holy Roots
- High Noon of Empire
- Retreat from Empire
- 3 It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame 29
- The Battle and its Aftermath
- Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
- The Cult of Death
- Preserving the Message
- The Heavenly State
- 4 Resurrection and Beyond 48
- From Pig Dealers to Princes
- From History into Ideology
- Creating the New Nationalism
- 5 Cutting the Turks into Pieces 73
- The Burning Tradition
- Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
- They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
- Instinct and Experience: How Many?
- 6 Union or Death 90
- Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
- Sarajevo, 1914
- Agony and Resurrection
- Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
- The Empire Restored
- 7 We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom 113
- Decline and Fall
- Into the Whirlwind
- Croatia, Kaputt
- Kosovo: Land of Revenge
- Frankenstein's Monster
- 8 You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun 135
- White Lines and Marble Columns
- Blind Alleys
- Rankovic and Beyond
- Croatian Spring
- Serbian Summer
- Kosovo: Use Brute Force
- Bosnian Spirit
- A Proposal for Hopelessness
- Antique God
- Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
- 9 Frankie and Badger Go to War 168
- Framing the Serbs
- Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
- You Must Have
- Bloodshed to Make a Country
- We've Been Here Before!
- Rusty Shoehorns
- Half-Time
- 10 We Are the Strongest 191
- Which Side Will You Be On?
- On the Highway to Hell
- 11 It Was War... 204
- The Croatian Connection
- Corridor Life
- Sarajevo: Serbian Defeat
- Pale: Fiction Met Reality
- 12 The Madmen Take Over the Asylum 225
- Bosanski Novi and the Spare Ribs
- The Banality of Evil?
- No One Will Harm You!
- 13 The War for More 242
- The Bihac Bazaar and the Human Hens
- Bosnia: Open for Business
- Belgrade-Chicago
- 14 363 Quadrillion Per Cent 259
- The Price We Must Pay...
- Banks, What Banks?
- The Inflationary Tsunami
- Surfing the Tsunami
- Supergrandpa to the Rescue
- Serbia's Loss, Canada's Gain
- 15 Skull Towers 279
- Days in Hell
- The Idea Is on the Table
- House Hunters
- 16 ... For Nothing 295
- Serbs to Sacrifice
- Simplifying Matters
- On Board the Supertanker
- The Spider's Web
- 17 End of Empire 312
- Land of the Living Past
- From Enver to Rambouillet
- Isolation
- Our Nation is a Hero
- Heavenly People
- Appendix 1 National Structure of Yugoslavia, 1918 338
- Appendix 2 Yugoslav Census of 1961 339
- Appendix 3 Yugoslav Census of 1981 340
- Appendix 4 Yugoslav Census of 1991 343
- Appendix 5 Population of Kosovo, 1948-91 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300085079
- OCLC:
- 44162627
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