Explaining Yugoslavia / John B. Allcock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allcock, John B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Yugoslavia--History.

Yugoslavia.

Former Yugoslav republics--History.

Former Yugoslav republics.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 499 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Traversing the politics, economics, demography, and culture of the former Yugoslavia, John B. Allcock examines and makes sense of the region's troubled past and troubling present. Though many think of the Balkans as a uniquely troubled region, the author asserts that the continuities in Balkan history constitute the same processes of development that have occurred in other societies and are part of the ongoing process of global modernization.

Contents:

Continuity and discontinuity 1

The quest for understanding 5

The argument outlined 6

Chapter 2. Balkan Societies in the Modern World 13

Modernity: modernisation 14

Globalisation 20

The Balkans, Europe and the world 23

Chapter 3. Markets, Industry and Trade before 1945 27

Some preliminary framing generalisations 27

The Ottoman Empire and the explanation of backwardness 29

The development of Ottoman underdevelopment 32

Regional diversity in the Ottoman economy in the Balkans 37

The roots of backwardness in the Habsburg lands 45

The "First Yugoslavia" and the problems of modernisation 54

The economic impact of the Second World War 63

Chapter 4. The "Second Yugoslavia" and the Contradictions of Modernity 67

Post-war socialist reorganisation 70

The re-evaluation of central planning 73

The development of "workers' self-management" 76

The reform process and its contradictions 78

Economic factors in the break-up of Yugoslavia 89

Chapter 5. Economic Modernisation: the Agrarian Economy 100

Why agriculture? 100

Modernisation, commoditisation and capitalism 101

The agrarian economy in the Ottoman lands 103

The agrarian economy in the Habsburg lands 106

Agriculture in the "First Yugoslavia" 109

The impact of the Second World War 123

Agriculture under "administrative socialism" 125

Reappraisal-and stagnation 131

Agriculture and economic reform 133

The "Green Plan" 137

Agriculture in the years of crisis 140

Chapter 6. The Movement of Population: Territory and Power 145

The importance of population 145

Four types of population movement 146

Conquest and the changing character of new elites 147

War and the displacement of the defeated 152

Spontaneous driftor "metanastasis" 159

Modernisation and the flight to the towns 161

Differential population growth 165

Chapter 7. New Classes for Old 170

New perspectives for old 170

Social hierarchy under the Habsburgs 172

Social hierarchy under Ottoman absolutism 173

The chimera of Balkan capitalism 176

Inequality and Communist revolution 182

The development of social differences in the "Second Yugoslavia" 186

Inequalities as a factor in the break-up of Yugoslavia 206

Chapter 8. State Formation and the International Order 211

States and the system of states 211

"Imperial borderlands" and the "Eastern Question" 213

The First World War and the formation of a unified South Slav state 218

The "First Yugoslavia" in the Balkan political space 230

The rise of socialist Yugoslavia and the Cold War 236

The break-up of Yugoslavia in its global context 241

Chapter 9. Dimensions of Political Modernity: the Failure of Democracy 245

"Democracy" and political modernity 245

The importance of "civil society" ... 247

... and the link with "citizenship" 250

Representative institutions before unification of the South Slavs 251

The populist pattern of interwar politics 264

The political legacy of war: 1941-5 269

Communist hegemony and the one-party system 271

Chapter 10. Dimensions of Political Modernity: the Failure of Civil Society and Citizenship 277

The underdevelopment of civil society before 1945 277

The failure of civil society in the Second Yugoslavia 288

Citizenship 301

Civility and "civil manners" 305

The failure of citizenship and civil society 308

Chapter 11. The Forging of National Identity 311

The construction of national identity 314

The dialectics of national identity 328

The nation as an "imagined community" 337

Nationhood and the future of the South Slav peoples 347

Chapter 12. The Passing of Traditional Society? 351

"Culture" and the nature of "tradition" 351

Family life and kinship 353

Land ownership 359

Relationships of sponsorship and clientship 360

Religion 366

Politics as tradition 376

Chapter 13. Violence in South Slav Society 381

Knowing the "other": the practice of knowledge 382

Legitimacy, violence and social order 383

The forms of legitimate violence 384

The symbolic interpretation of violence 394

Coda on "aberrant" violence 407

Chapter 14. Quo Vadis, Jugoslavijo? 411

The place of the past: prison or patrimony? 414

Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? 417

Post-Communism in Yugoslavia: six theses 431.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-473) and index.

ISBN:

0231120540

0231120559

OCLC:

42592868