Thinking about Yugoslavia : scholarly debates about the Yugoslav breakup and the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo / Sabrina P. Ramet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Historiography.

Yugoslavia--History--1992-2003--Historiography.

Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia--History--1992-2003--Historiography--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 328 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Yugoslav breakup and conflict have given rise to a considerable literature offering dramatically different interpretations of what happened. But just how do the various interpretations relate to each other? This ambitious new book by Sabrina Ramet, an eminent commentator on recent Balkan politics and history, reviews and analyses more than 130 books about the troubled region and compares their accounts, theories and interpretations of events. Ramet surveys the major debates which divide the field, alternative accounts of the causes of Yugoslavia's violent collapse, and the scholarly debates concerning humanitarian intervention. Rival accounts are presented side by side for easy comparison. Thinking about Yugoslavia examines books on Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo which were published in English, German, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and Italian, thus offering the English-speaking reader a unique insight into the controversies.

Contents:

Debates about the war

The collapse of East European communism

The roots of the Yugoslav collapse

Who's to blame, and for what? : rival accounts of the war

Memoirs and autobiographies

The scourge of nationalism and the quest for harmony

Milošević's place in history

Dilemmas in post-Dayton Bosnia

Crisis in Kosovo/a / (with Angelo Georgakis)

Debates about intervention

Lands and peoples : Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia

Southern republics : Macedonia and Montenegro in contemporary history

Conclusion : controversies, methodological disputes, and suggested reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

9780511492136

0511492138

Publisher Number:

99984810049

9780521851510 (hbk.)

9780521616904 (pbk.)

99812091772

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