-A highly readable narrative of nineteenth and twentiety century Serbian history told with verve and deep knowledge.-
--Mark Mazower, author of Dark Continent: Europe in the Twentieth Century

-Pavlowitch has consistently maintained a very high standard of accuracy and scholarship in all of his work on the former Yugoslavia.-
-- New York Review of Books, April 25, 2002

Serbias have come and gone, and they have moved from place to place. This book looks at the historical forces, actors, ideas, and period which have molded the entities that go by the name...