Overview

This book traces the intellectual origins of race theory in the pro-Nazi Ustasha Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945. This race theory was not, as historians of the Ustasha state have hitherto argued, a product of a practical accommodation to the dominant Nazi racial ideology. Contrary to the general historiographical view, which has either downplayed or ignored the important place of race, not only in Ustasha ideology and politics, but more generally in modern Croatian and Yugoslav nationalism, this work stresses the significant role that theories of ethnolinguistic origin and racial anthropology played in defining Croat nationhood from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Upon the basis of older ideological and cultural traditions, the Ustasha state constructed an ideal Aryan racial type.

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Author:   Nevenko Bartulin
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9789004262836

ISBN 10:   9004262830
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Language and race: Croats, Illyrians, Slavs and Aryans Introduction The Indo-Europeans Pan-Slavism and the Illyrian movement Yugoslavism and the Serbs of Croatia Conclusion 2 Ante Starčević: Historic state right and Croat blood Introduction The Slavoserbs and the Vlach question Blood and race (‘breed’) Conclusion 3 Race theory in Habsburg Croatia 1900-1918 Introduction Germanic rulers, Slav subjects and Asiatic nomads Racial anthropology: The Dinaric race Balkan anthropology and Ćiro Truhelka: Fair-haired Slavs and dark-skinned Vlachs The socio-historical theory of Ivo Pilar: Race and religion Serbian-Yugoslavist racial ideas Racial Yugoslavism and the Croatian Peasant Party Conclusion 4 Yugoslavist and Serbian racial theories in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Introduction The trinomial South Slavic nation The patriarchal Serbian/Yugoslav Dinaric type The South Slavs and German racial anthropology Boris Zarnik: Nordic-Dinaric racial admixture Conclusion 5 Interwar Croatian ethnolinguistic-racial theories Introduction Filip Lukas: The Western-Eastern Croats and the Dinaric race Milan Šufflay: Croatia as a frontier of the White West The Iranian and Gothic theories of Croat origins Croatian racial discourse and the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina Conclusion 6 The interwar Ustasha movement and ethnolinguistic-racial identity Introduction The Ustasha principles Ustasha ideology: Croat ethnic-racial history Conclusion 7 The Ustasha racial state Introduction The national community The race laws Conclusion 8 The ideal racial type: The Aryan Croat Introduction The new (old) Croatian man A cultured warrior nation The Dinaric race and the Nordic racial strain The Nordic Slavic-Gothic-Iranian Herrenschicht The Croats of Catholic and Islamic faith National Socialist race theory and the Croats Conclusion 9 The racial counter-type: The Near Eastern race Introduction The Serb-Vlachs Religious conversion and racial restrictions The Croatian Orthodox Church The Jews Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

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The great contribution of the young historian Nevenko Bartulin is to connect earlier history to the Ustasha without making 1941 seem a necessary outcome [...] a brilliant and original first academic work by a student of European racism. John Connelly in The Nation, September 2014.

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Nevenko Bartulin, Ph.D. (2006) in History, is visiting academic at the Department of International Studies (Croatian Studies), Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the recent author of Honorary Aryans: National-Racial Identity and Protected Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

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