Overview
The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations, both local and external. In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on a set of five principal controversies from the precommunist period with which the region’s history and historiography must contend: the pre-1914 Ottoman and Eastern Christian Orthodox legacies; the post-1918 struggles for state-building; the range of European economic and cultural influences across the interwar period, as opposed to diplomatic or political intervention; the role of violence and paramilitary forces in challenging the interwar political regimes in the region; and the fate of ethnic minorities into and after World War II, particularly Jews, Muslims and Roma. In an attempt to give a voice to eminent local authors, the chapters provide samples of new regional scholarship exploring these contested issues—most of them translated into English for the first time—and are prefaced with historiographical overviews addressing the state of the debate on these specific controversies. These translations help bridge the language barriers that often separate scholarly traditions within Southeast Europe, as well as scholars in Southeast Europe and English-speaking academia. This volume will enable readers to identify common patterns and influences that characterize the writing of history in the region, and will stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to the history of the Balkans.
Full Product Details
Author: Constantin Iordachi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Imprint: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789633863251
ISBN 10: 9633863252
Pages: 342
Publication Date: 15 September 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
At last, a study to demonstrate to an Anglo-Saxon readership how academic history writing in Southeastern Europe is making substantial progress in pertinent debates rather than repeating old national mantras over and over again.--Wim van Meurs
"""At last, a study to demonstrate to an Anglo-Saxon readership how academic history writing in Southeastern Europe is making substantial progress in pertinent debates rather than repeating old national mantras over and over again.""--Wim van Meurs"
Author Information
Constantin Iordachi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University and President of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies. John R. Lampe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Among his many publications, his most recent book is Balkans into Southeastern Europe, 1914–2014, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).
