Macedonia and the Macedonians : a history / Andrew Rossos.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Rossos, Andrew, 1941-

Series:

• Studies of nationalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Macedonia--History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 367 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2008]

Summary:

Throughout history, every power that aspired to dominate the Balkans-from the ancient Romans to Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia in the age of imperialism and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-has sought to control Macedonia. But although Macedonia figured prominently in history, it remained a little-known land until the nineteenth century. This detailed volume surveys the history of Macedonia from 600 B.C. to the present day, with an emphasis on the past two centuries. It reveals how the so-called Macedonian question has long dominated Balkan politics, and how for well over a century and a half, it was the central issue dividing Balkan peoples, as neighboring nations struggled for possession of Macedonia and denied any distinct Macedonian identity-territorial, political, ethnic, or national. The author concludes that Balkan acceptance of a Macedonian identity, nation, and state has become a necessity for stability in the Balkans and in a united Europe.

Contents:

• 1 Land and People at the Crossroads 1
• Land 1
• People 3
• Part 1 From Argead Kingdom to Ottoman Vilayets (c. 600 BC-c. AD 1800) 9
• 2 From Argeads to Huns (c. 600 BC-c. AD 600) 11
• The Early Kingdom (c. 600-359 BC) 12
• Expansion and Empire (359-323 BC) 14
• Division and Decline (323-168 BC) 15
• Roman and Byzantine Rule, Goths, and Huns (168 BC-c. AD 600) 17
• 3 Medieval, Slavic Macedonia (c. 600-c. 1400) 19
• The Byzantine Commonwealth 19
• The Slavic Invasions 22
• Macedonia (c. 600-c. 850) 25
• Bulgarian Rule (864-971) 26
• Tsar Samuil's Macedonian Empire (971-1018) 28
• Macedonia: Cradle of Slav Orthodox Culture 32
• Byzantine Rule and Chaos (1018-c. 1400) 35
• 4 Ottoman Rule (c. 1400-c. 1800) 41
• The Ottoman Administration and the Orthodox Millet 43
• Ottoman Expansion and Decline 45
• Ottoman Decline and the Balkans (c. 1600-c. 1800) 48
• Macedonia: Ethnic Transformation, Resistance, Anarchy, and Cultural Stagnation 51
• Part 2 National Awakening (c. 1800-1913) 59
• 5 Ottoman Reform and Decline (c. 1800-1908) 63
• Macedonian Growth and Decline (1800-1870) 69
• Propaganda War for Macedonia (1870-1900) 72
• 6 National Awakening and National Identity (1814-1913) 79
• Historiography 79
• Early Macedonian Nationalism (to 1870) 82
• Paths to Nationhood (1870-1913) 87
• 7 The VMRO and Ilinden (1893-1903) 99
• The VMRO (1893-1903) 100
• Ilinden 106
• Part 3 Strangers in Their Homeland (1913-1940) 115
• 8 Decline and Partition (1903-1919) 117
• The VMRO's Decline and Split (1903-1908) 117
• Intervention, Wars, and Partition (1903-1913) 121
• Sequel: The Great War and the Peace Settlement 127
• 9 Macedonia in Three Parts (1920s and 1930s) 131
• Partition and Assimilation 131
• Yugoslav (Vardar) Macedonia 133
• Greek (Aegean) Macedonia 141
• Bulgarian (Pirin) Macedonia 148
• Macedonianism Survives 153
• 10 Macedonian Nationalism: From Right to Left (1920s and 1930s) 155
• Unification Aborted (1924) 155
• The VMRO and Macedonian Nationalism on the Right 160
• VMRO (ob.): Macedonian Nationalism on the Left 165
• Part 4 Statehood and Independence (During and After the Second World War) 179
• 11 War and Revolution (1940-1949) 183
• A New Partition (1941-1944) 183
• Hostile Neutrality and Beyond (1941-1944) 186
• Toward a Yugoslav Republic (1941-1944) 189
• Greek and Bulgarian Macedonia (1941-1944) 197
• Macedonians in a New Balkans (1944-1949) 202
• 12 Yugoslav Macedonia: Politics and Government (1944-1991) 213
• Yugoslavia's New Dispensation (1944-1948) 214
• Macedonia: Putting Dreams on Ice (1945-1948) 220
• Yugoslav Communism (1948-1991) 226
• Macedonia: A Junior Partner (1943-1991) 235
• 13 Economics, Culture, Minorities (1944-1991) 243
• The Economy: Agriculture and Industry 243
• Culture: Language, Education, and the Arts 249
• National Minorities 256
• 14 Independent Republic (1991-2004) 261
• Setting Up an Independent Republic 262
• Seeking Foreign Recognition (1991-1995) 267
• Politics in the 1990s: From Left to Right 273
• Economic Problems 276
• Macedonian-Albanian Relations 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-347) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780817948818
• 0817948813
• 9780817948825
• 0817948821

OCLC:

165083241