The South Slav Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Yugoslavia
ISBN : UOM:39015079749977

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The South Slav Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Former Yugoslav republics
ISBN : IND:30000125389746

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The South Slav Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate Hudson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056961249

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Breaking the South Slav Dream by Kate Hudson Pdf

'... Kate Hudson's welcome and timely work explains the real reasons for the break-up of Yugoslavia with rigour and clarity.' --Alice Mahon MP

Author : Tahir Mahmutefendic
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781493139668

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Economic Performance in South- East European Transition Countries after the Fall of Communism by Tahir Mahmutefendic Pdf

Author : Philip Eade
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805097610

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Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Fifty years after Evelyn Waugh’s death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted -- and fascinating -- writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited. Graham Greene hailed Waugh as ‘the greatest novelist of my generation’, and in recent years his reputation has only grown. Now Philip Eade has delivered an authoritative and hugely entertaining biography that is full of new material, much of it sensational. Eade builds upon the existing Waugh lore with access to a remarkable array of unpublished sources provided by Waugh’s grandson, including passionate love letters to Baby Jungman – the Holy Grail of Waugh research - a revealing memoir by Waugh’s first wife Evelyn Gardner (“Shevelyn”), and an equally significant autobiography by Waugh’s commanding officer in World War II. Eade’s gripping narrative illuminates Waugh’s strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother; his love affairs with male classmates at Oxford and female bright young things thereafter; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his insane wartime bravery; his drug-induced madness; his singular approach to marriage and fatherhood; his complex relationship with the aristocracy; the astonishing power of his wit; and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. One of Eade’s aims is ‘to re-examine some of the distortions and misconceptions that have come to surround this famously complex and much mythologized character’.‘This might look like code for a plan to whitewash the overly blackwashed Waugh,’ comments veteran Waugh scholar Professor Donat Gallagher; ‘but readers fixated on atrocities will not be disappointed . . . I have been researching and writing about Waugh since 1963 and Eade time and again surprised and delighted me.’ Waugh was famously difficult and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.

Author : Ante Kadić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Slavic literature, Southern
ISBN : UOM:39015016941919

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Essays in South Slavic Literature by Ante Kadić Pdf

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857431367

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Central and South-Eastern Europe 2003 by Europa Publications Pdf

An in-depth survey of the region presenting the latest economic and political developments. It includes expert comment on issues of regional importance, up-to-date statistics, a directory of institutes and companies and political profiles.

Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520218659

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Kosovo by Julie Mertus Pdf

Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.

Author : Ann Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230214071

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Yugoslavia by Ann Lane Pdf

Yugoslavia was a phenomenon of the 'short' twentieth century. Its two incarnations fell between the cataclysm of the First World War which destroyed the old order, and the transformation of Europe which followed the collapse of communism in 1989. The task of building a viable, unified state was complicated not only by Yugoslavia's diverse cultural composition, but also by the pressures which the evolution of international society have placed on the modern state. Yugoslavia - Explains and examines the key themes in the history of the former Yugoslavia - Synthesises the main strands in contemporary debate about the origins of the Yugoslav crisis - Presents a truly international history, exposing in full the role played by other countries in the rise and fall of the nation Focussing on both domestic and external factors, Ann Lane presents a balanced analysis of this ultimately failed attempt at state-building in a region of cultural diversity.

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857431863

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Central and South-Eastern Europe 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf

Comprises: a general survey of the region; country surveys; political profiles of the region; and information on international and regional organizations, and research institutes.

Author : Raju G.C Thomas,H. Richard Frim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000525458

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The South Slav Conflict by Raju G.C Thomas,H. Richard Frim Pdf

First Published in 1996. In identifying the causes of such a national and international failure in conflict management, The South Slav Conflict becomes a valuable case study in comparative politics and international relations. Edited by Raju G .C . Thomas and H. Richard Frim and, is unique among these by virtue of its thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of the war. The book’s great strength begins with its forthright assertion that no serious attempt to explain the current cycle of genocide and revenge among Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians can avoid the inherent complexity of the factors that transform ed Yugoslavia from one of the most pluralist of European communist states into a theater of human misery.

Author : James Pettifer,Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857726414

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War in the Balkans by James Pettifer,Tom Buchanan Pdf

The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare. Focusing on the centuries opening decades, War in the Balkans seeks to shed new light on the Balkan Wars through approaching each regional and ethnic conflict as a separate actor, before placing them in a wider context. Although top-down 'Great Powers' historiography is often used to describe the beginnings of the World War I, not enough attention has been paid to the events in the region in the years preceding the Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. The Balkan Wars saw the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the end of the Bulgarian Kingdom (then one of the most powerful military countries in the region), an unprecedented hardening of Serbian nationalism, the swallowing up of Slovenes, Croats and Slovaks in a larger Balkan entity, and thus set in place the pattern of border realignments which would become familiar for much of the twentieth century.

Author : Rusko Matuli?
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493190782

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Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III by Rusko Matuli? Pdf

Author : Danijel Dzino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004189386

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Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat by Danijel Dzino Pdf

Drawing on the new ways of reading and studying ancient and early medieval sources, this book explores the appearance of the Croat identity in early medieval Dalmatia.

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet,Vjeran I. Pavlakovic
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295802077

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Serbia Since 1989 by Sabrina P. Ramet,Vjeran I. Pavlakovic Pdf

During their thirteen years in power, Slobodan Milosevic and his cohorts plunged Yugoslavia into wars of ethnic cleansing, leading to the murder of thousands of civilians. The Milosevic regime also subverted the nation's culture, twisted the political mainstream into a virulent nationalist mold, sapped the economy through war and the criminalization of a free market, returned to gender relations of a bygone era, and left the state so dysfunctional that its peripheries--Kosovo, Vojvodina, and Montenegro--have been struggling to maximize their distance from Belgrade, through far-reaching autonomy or through outright independence. In this valuable collection of essays, Vjeran Pavlakovic, Reneo Lukic, and Obrad Kesic examine elements of continuity and discontinuity from the Milosevic era to the twenty-first century, the struggle at the center of power, and relations between Serbia and Montenegro. Contributions by Sabrina Ramet, James Gow, and Milena Michalski explore the role of Serbian wartime propaganda and the impact of the war on Serbian society. Essays by Eric Gordy, Maja Miljovic, Marko Hoare, and Kari Osland look at the legacy of Serbia's recent wars-issues of guilt and responsibility, the economy, and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. Sabrina Ramet and Biljana Bijelic address the themes of culture and values. Frances Trix, Emil Kerenji, and Dennis Reinhartz explore the peripheries in the politics of Kosovo/a, Vojvodina, and Serbia's Roma. Serbia Since 1989 reveals a Serbia that is still traumatized from Milosevic's rule and groping toward redefining its place in the world.