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

ISBN-13: 9780521851510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 348 str.

Sabrina Petra Ramet

Opis

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 uniquely helpful to the specialist as well as the general reader seeking to understand the causes of the Yugoslav breakup.

Recenzje

'… the obvious first pick for people interested in reading on these topics.' East Central Europe Journal

Spis treści

Preface; List of books reviewed; 1. Debates about the war; 2. The collapse of Eastern European communism; 3. The roots of the Yugoslav collapse; 4. Who's to blame? Rival accounts of the war; 5. Memoirs and autobiographies; 6. The scourge of nationalism and the quest for harmony; 7. Milo∫evic's place in history; 8. Dilemmas in post-Dayton Bosnia; 9. Crisis in Kosovo/a; 10. Debates about intervention; 11. Lands and peoples: Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia; 12. Southern Republics: Macedonia and Montenegro in contemporary history; Conclusion: Controversies, methodological disputes and suggested reading.