The Routledge handbook of Balkan and Southeast European history / edited by John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lampe, John R., editor, author.

Brunnbauer, Ulf, 1970- editor, author.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Balkan Peninsula--History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 538 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution. Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia's successor states and its neighbors. Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: The early modern Balkans as imperial borderlands

Part II: Nation-and state-building, 1815-1912

Part III: The Balkan Wars and the First World War, 1912-1923

Part IV: Southeastern European States and national politics, 1922-1939

Part V: Economies and societies, 1878-1939

Part VI: From the Second World War to the establishment of the postwar regimes, 1939-1949

Part VII: Cold War division and European transition, 1949-1989

Part VIII: Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: The Routledge handbook of Balkan and Southeast European history

ISBN:

9780429464799

0429464797

OCLC:

1156439001

Access Restriction:

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