Thinking about Yugoslavia Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo

Name: Thinking about Yugoslavia Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo
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ISBN: 9780521851510

ISBN-10: 0521851513

ISBN-13: 9780521851510

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sabrina P. Ramet

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The Yugoslav breakup and conflict gave rise to a considerable body of literature with dramatically different interpretations of the causes of the dissolution. But, how do these various interpretations relate to each other? Sabrina Ramet, a veteran Yugoslav authority, reviews and analyzes more than 130 books dealing with the region that comprises the former Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. Included among the reviews are books in English, German, Serbian/Croatian, and Italian, offering the English-speaking reader access to the principal ideas and theories first published in these languages. This ambitious work promises to be…

Book details

List price: $114.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/8/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


List of books discussed


Glossary



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



Milosevic'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


Index