Beyond the Balkans offers new perspectives on Southeast European history, envisaging the region's history as an integral part of European and global history. Debates about the mental map of "the Balkans" as the negative alter ego of "the West" and about the construction of the Balkans as a historical space sui generis provide points of departure. The book's essays treat an exemplary, yet broad, set of topics designed to open up idle fields of research. They foster common and coherent methodological lines and establish a new agenda for future research. (Series: Studies on South East Europe -...

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states.

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912-13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars' history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in ‘cleansed’ borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of ‘No Neighbors’ Lands’: How does it feel to wear the dress of your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends, colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life? How is moral,...