Part I. Between Regional Self-Will and Imperial Rule: 1. The Space and Time of Albanian History; 2. The Albanians in the Middle Ages, 500–1500; 3. The Albanians under Ottoman Rule: The Classic Period of Arnavutluk, 1500–1800; 4. Ottoman Arnavutluk in Crisis, 1800–1912; Part II. State and Nation Construction: 5. Arnavutluk to Albania: The Triumph of Albanianism, 1912–1924; 6. Interwar Albania, The Rise of Authoritarianism, 1925–1939; 7. The Second World War and the Establishment of the Communist Regime, 1939–1944; 8. Albania's Stalinist Dictatorship, 1944–1989; 9. The Struggle to Establish a Democracy since 1989; Political Leaders and Political Systems since 1912; Select Bibliography; Index.