The Balkans in world history / Andrew Baruch Wachtel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wachtel, Andrew, author.

Series:

New Oxford world history.

The new Oxford world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balkan Peninsula-History.

Europe, Eastern-History.

Balkan Peninsula--History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Europe, Eastern--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local prvilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Editors' Preface

Introduction: The Balkans as Borderland and Melting Pot

Chapter 1: Beginnings: From Prehistory to the Byzantine Empire

Chapter 2: The Medieval Balkans

Chapter 3: The Balkans under Ottoman Rule

Chapter 4: The Long Nineteenth Century (1775-1922)

Chapter 5: The Twentieth Century: From the Balkans to Southeast Europe

Chronology

Notes

Further Reading

Web Sites

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131-137]) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-988273-8

OCLC:

1109775505