TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wachtel,Andrew
TI  - The Balkans in world history
SN  - 9780195338010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - DR36 .W33 2008
U1  - 949.6 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - Europe, Eastern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [131-137]) and index; The Balkans as borderland and melting pot -- Beginnings: from prehistory to the Byzantine Empire -- The medieval Balkans -- The Balkans under Ottoman rule -- The long nineteenth century (1775-1922) -- The twentieth century from the Balkans to southeast Europe
N2  - 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. 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008015134.html
ER  -