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Synchrony And Diachrony Of The Balkan Infinitive

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This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of one of the characteristics shared to some degree by the languages of the Balkan peninsula - Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Romanian - namely the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb...

Kosovo Divided - Ethnicity, Nationalism And The Struggle For A State

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Given the recent revival of nationalism in many parts of the world in tandem with new conflicts and forms of interventionism, this book uses the case of Kosovo to discuss some of key problems around contemporary practices of state-building. Based on exhaustive research and fieldwork, Marius Calu...

Favole E Leggende Dai Balcani

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After the volume dedicated to fairy tales and legends from Slovenia, Istria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the journey of Giacomo Scotti in the Balkan world fictions continues with this collection that brings the reader to the regions of Serbia and Macedonia, to the borders of Hungary,...

Endgame In The Balkans

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Can Europe tame the Balkans? That's the question veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond addresses in this timely and absorbing book. Starting with the wars of the Yugoslav succession, Endgame in the Balkans guides readers through the region's tumultuous recent history and explores both how the lure...

Ethnic Conflict And War Crimes In The Balkans

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In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural, and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense international scrutiny. But is this scrutiny justfied, and how can these responses be better understood? Jelena Obradovic engages with ideas...

The Balkans Since The Second World War

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Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a...

To The Lake - A Journey Of War And Peace

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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes...

Military Intervention And Crisis Of And Democracy In Turkey

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Adnan Menderes' election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, taking over Kemal Ataturk's political heirs, the People's Republican Party (CHP), and challenging the Kemalist elite's monopoly on the...

Integrating The Balkans

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Emerging from a decade of violent ethnic and inter-state conflict during the 1990s, the countries of the Western Balkans entered a phase of rebuilding and reconciliation. Due to the key role played by the EU in the region's rebuilding efforts, "Integrating the Balkans" explores this...

The City In The Ottoman Empire

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The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of...

Hijacked Justice

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What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She finds that international efforts...

Contested Frontiers In The Balkans

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From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia; Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West for centuries. Here, Irina Marin focuses on the territories on the edges of these historical empires, analyzing the complex ethnic and...

Storia Dei Balcani

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In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans stand out as a large, frightening and ill-defined space and are often viewed negatively, like a region inhabited by small and mischievous peoples, tormented by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflicts. The...

A Modern History Of The Balkans

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The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history-the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. Written by one of the leading historians of the region, this is a new interpretation of that history, focusing on...

Balkan Wars

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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 fall from power had been gradual, but by the early years of the twentieth century, the collapse of the mighty world that had once...

The Balkans In The New Millennium

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Can the Balkans ever become a peaceful peninsula like that of Scandinavia? With enlightened backing, can it ever make common cause with the rest of Europe rather than being an arena of periodic conflicts, political misrule, and economic misery? In the last years of the twentieth century, Western...

Great Britain And The Creaton Of Yugoslavia

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The final weeks of the First World War saw a revolutionary upheaval in Europe as old empires collapsed and new, self-proclaimed 'nation-states' emerged in their place. For its advocates, the Yugoslav state created in 1918 represented a largely uniform culture and identity. But as its official...

Histoire Des Balkans XiV-Xx Siecle

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De la conquête des Balkans par les Ottomans aux soubresauts de l'éclatement de la Yougoslavie, ce livre retrace de cette région qui fut la poudrière de l'Europe et donne les clés pour comprendre les conflits qui s'y déroulent. Au fil des siècles, une mosaïque de peuples s'y sont mélangés ou...

Between Past And Future

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This text places civil-military relations in the historical context of the tangled evolution of Balkan states. It analyses the debate on how to overcome the "Balkan Legacy" and build peace in the region in the absence of Russian hegemony and how to promote a new political order. It...

Storia Del Montenegro

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Nella storia del Montenegro, centrale è la spinta del paese verso l’indipendenza e l’autogoverno, una spinta già presente nel Medioevo e rafforzatasi durante il periodo in cui il territorio fu governato dalla dinastia Petrovic, che annoverò tra le sue file il celebre “Dante dei Balcani”, Petar II...

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