The Balkans Over Years

Author : Gisela Spreitzhofer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638873369

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The Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans by Gisela Spreitzhofer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South East Europe, Balkans, grade: A, School of Advanced Internatl. Studies (School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)), course: The Balkans - From Fragmentation to What?, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 500 years of Ottoman sovereignty have undoubtedly left significant imprints on the Balkans. Monumental edifices and everyday words spoken in different languages are, amongst others, living testimonies of the imperial past. However, there are opposing interpretations of the Ottoman legacy. The prevailing view describes the Ottomans as alien intruders, blaming them for the Balkans' perceived backwardness, whereas others see the era more as a period of combining Turkish, Islamic, and Byzantine/Balkan traditions. In order to avoid overgeneralizations and -simplifications, the notion of an "Ottoman legacy" has to be taken with caution for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the Ottoman empire was preceded by the Byzantine empire, which itself was the successor of the Roman empire. Consequently, some traditions wrongly ascribed to the Ottomans can be traced back as far as to the Romans. Secondly, a distinction has to be made between what of this legacy is Islamic and what Ottoman. Without any doubt, many Ottoman institutions were inherited from earlier Islamic models, but the Ottomans made their own particular contributions in many fields. Thirdly, significant regional differences within the empire need to be taken into account. Finally, in some instances the question of an Ottoman inheritance has to be extended to the broader question of imperial inheritances because particularly at the end of the Ottoman era, the Balkans were also subject to influences from the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian empire. This paper is structured in the following manner. I would like to start by presenting two different interpretations of the Ottoman legacy. Next, I wil

Author : Tahir Mahmutefendic
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781543491326

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The Balkans over Years by Tahir Mahmutefendic Pdf

The book The Balkans over Years: History and Politics is a collection of book reviews written over a period of almost two decades and published in various issues in the South Slav Journal. The books reviewed are multidisciplinary, covering economic, social, political, military, historical, linguistic, legal, literary, and even psychological and psychoanalitical facets of analysis of complex life in the Balkans. The aim of this book is to present a wide range of topics relevant to the Balkans with a view of bridging the gaps in opinions and arriving at conclusions, which will approach objective truth.

Author : Maria Todorova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199889099

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Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova Pdf

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.

Author : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531279394

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History of the Balkans by Ferdinand Schevill Pdf

THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to lift, to the twentieth century of the Christian era is a span of about three thousand years. During that long stretch of time what migrations, wars, settlements, worships, and civilizations make their appearance in the deep perspective of Balkan history! What peoples march across the soil, fair-haired, strong-limbed warriors clothed in skins, succeeded by dark, bronzed men, curved over the backs of horses and alert for plunder! What empires come and go, one moment mounting resistlessly like a wave of the sea, the next dissolving in a cloud of spray! An epic tale is about to engage our attention calling for infinite patience with the intricacies of a deliberately moving plot and demanding an unswerving attachment to pilgrim man as well as a constantly renewed interest in the riddle of his destiny...

Author : Jacob Gould Schurman
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596051768

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The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 by Jacob Gould Schurman Pdf

"There has broken out and is now in progress a war which is generally regarded as the greatest of all time-a war already involving five of the six Great Powers and three of the smaller nations of Europe as well as Japan and Turkey..."So opens this second edition of the classic history published mere months after the first in 1914 and prompted by the rapidly devolving global political situation. Students of World War I and war reportage will find a stunning immediacy and a journalistic urgency in this recounting of a war that turned out to be but a mere skirmish preceding a much larger conflagration, told by a diplomat on the scene: the author, a former philosophy professor, served as U.S. minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars.AUTHOR BIO: JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN (1854-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island and educated in Britain and Germany, but spent much of his life in the service of government and education in the United States. In 1892, he was named Cornell University's third President, and during his 28-year tenure advanced the causes of academic freedom and intellectual liberalism. His wide-ranging diplomatic missions-embarked upon during his years as Cornell's president-took him around the globe to postings in the Pacific, Europe, and China.

Author : Robert Lee Wolff
Publisher : New York, Norton [1967]
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027240871

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The Balkans in Our Time by Robert Lee Wolff Pdf

Author : M. E. Durham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4057664584694

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Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle by M. E. Durham Pdf

Learn more about Balkan politics in the early 20th century through M.E. Durham's 'Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle'. This fast-paced historical account brings to life the intrigues, backstabbing, and power struggles that defined the region from 1900 to 1920. Follow along as Durham delves into the history of Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, unraveling the events leading up to the thunderous eruption of World War I. From the Greater Serbian ideology to the insurrection of the Catholics, every chapter in this book is must-read for history buffs.

Author : Alexandru Madgearu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0810858460

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The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula by Alexandru Madgearu Pdf

The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history. Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states-prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies-then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts. Book jacket.

Author : L.S. Stavrianos
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814797655

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The Balkans Since 1453 by L.S. Stavrianos Pdf

With a new introduction by TRAIAN STOIANOVICH A monumental work of scholarship, The Balkans Since 1453 stands as one of the great accomplishments of European historiography. Long out of print, Stavrianos' opus both synthesizes the existing literature of Balkan studies since World War I and demonstrates the centrality of the Balkans to both European and world history, a centrality painfully apparent in recent years. At last, the cornerstone book for every student of Balkan history, culture and politics is now available once again.

Author : Richard C. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216163312

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War in the Balkans by Richard C. Hall Pdf

This authoritative reference follows the history of conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula from the 19th century through the present day. The Balkan Peninsula, which consists of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the former Yugoslavia, resides in the southeastern part of the European continent. Its strategic location as well as its long and bloody history of conflict have helped to define the Balkans' role in global affairs. This singular reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have made this region an international player and shaped warfare there for hundreds of years. Historian and author Richard C. Hall traces the sociopolitical history of the area, starting with the early internal conflicts as the Balkan states attempted to break away from the Ottoman Empire to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that ignited World War I to the Yugoslav Wars that erupted in the 1990s and the subsequent war crimes still being investigated today. Additional coverage focuses on how these countries continue to play an important role in global affairs and international politics.

Author : Mark Mazower
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307431967

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The Balkans by Mark Mazower Pdf

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's tinderbox and a seething cauldron of ethnic and religious resentments. Much has been made of the Balkans' deeply rooted enmities. The recent destruction of the former Yugoslavia was widely ascribed to millennial hatreds frozen by the Cold War and unleashed with the fall of communism. In this brilliant account, acclaimed historian Mark Mazower argues that such a view is a dangerously unbalanced fantasy. A landmark reassessment, The Balkans rescues the region's history from the various ideological camps that have held it hostage for their own ends, not least the need to justify nonintervention. The heart of the book deals with events from the emergence of the nation-state onward. With searing eloquence, Mazower demonstrates that of all the gifts bequeathed to the region by modernity, the most dubious has been the ideological weapon of romantic nationalism that has been used again and again by the power hungry as an acid to dissolve the bonds of centuries of peaceful coexistence. The Balkans is a magnificent depiction of a vitally important region, its history and its prospects.

Author : Ebru Boyar
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074055198

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Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans by Ebru Boyar Pdf

The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. This work charts the creation of the modern Turkish self-perception during the transition period from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.

Author : Bejtullah D. Destani,Robert Elsie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1350157090

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The Balkan Wars by Bejtullah D. Destani,Robert Elsie Pdf

The Ottoman Empire - the great power which had ruled much of southeastern Europe and the Middle East for over five centuries - was manifestly in decline by 1912. Its decline had been gradual, but by the early years of the twentieth century, the collapse of the mighty world that had once stretched to the gates of Vienna seemed increasingly inevitable. New Balkan states - Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece - combined forces in the First Balkan War (1912-1913) to bring about its downfall. But with victory in their grasp, they were soon at one another's throats. This book contains 83 selected and edited consular dispatches and reports sent to the Foreign Office in London focusing on events in Macedonia during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1914. They reveal the extent of human suffering in the southern Balkan region in this period and provide much insight into the realities of the Balkan conflagration as it affected Macedonia and its environs. As a first-hand, on-the-spot account, this is an invaluable source for historians of twentieth-century Europe, the lead-up to World War I and the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545486190

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History of the Balkans [Didactic Press Paperbacks] by Ferdinand Schevill Pdf

THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to lift, to the twentieth century of the Christian era is a span of about three thousand years. During that long stretch of time what migrations, wars, settlements, worships, and civilizations make their appearance in the deep perspective of Balkan history! What peoples march across the soil, fair-haired, strong-limbed warriors clothed in skins, succeeded by dark, bronzed men, curved over the backs of horses and alert for plunder! What empires come and go, one moment mounting resistlessly like a wave of the sea, the next dissolving in a cloud of spray! An epic tale is about to engage our attention calling for infinite patience with the intricacies of a deliberately moving plot and demanding an unswerving attachment to pilgrim man as well as a constantly renewed interest in the riddle of his destiny...

Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199882731

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The Balkans in World History by Andrew Baruch Wachtel Pdf

In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. 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 civilization. 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. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.