Yugoslavia and its historians : understanding the Balkan wars of the 1990s / edited by Norman M. Naimark and Holly Case.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Naimark, Norman M.

Case, Holly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula.

Nationalism.

Yugoslavia--History.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia--Historiography.

Balkan Peninsula--Politics and government--20th century.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journalists, political analysts, diplomats, human rights organization, the United Nations, and other government and intergovernmental organizations. Professional historians of Yugoslavia, however, have been strangely silent about the wars and the breakup of the country. This book is an effort to end that silence. The goal of this volume is to bring together insights from a distinguished group of American and European scholars of Yugoslavia to add depth to our historical understanding of that country’s recent struggles. The first part of the volume examines the ways in which images of the Yugoslav past have shaped current understandings of the region. The second part deals more directly with the events of the recent past and also looks forward to some of the problems and future prospects for Yugoslavia’s successor states.

Contents:

Clio amid the ruins : Yugoslavia and its predecessors in recent historiography / Duan J. Djordjevich

Ambiguous heroes : Balkan bandits and national ideologies / Wendy Bracewell

The rise and fall of morlacchismo : South Slavic identity in the mountains of Dalmatia / Larry Wolff

An island of peace in a turbulent world : old Ragusans' statesmanship as a paradigm for the modern Balkans / Baria Kreki

Transhumance / Wayne S. Vucinich

South Slav education : was there Yugoslavism? / Charles Jelavich

Yugoslavism versus Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene nationalism : political, ideological, and cultural causes of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia / Arnold Suppan

The Macedonian question and instability in the Balkans / Andrew Rossos

A crisis of identity : Serbia at the end of the century / Thomas A. Emmert

Heretical thoughts about the postcommunist transition, with particular attention to the once and future Yugoslavia / John V.A. Fine

Solving the wars of Yugoslav succession / Gale Stokes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780804780292

0804780293

OCLC:

923699721