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With the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, interest in Balkan history has increased and become emotionally charged. This balanced and engagingly written history of Serbia will help readers to understand the complex web of Serbian history, politics, society, and culture and how the Serbs have dealt with the many political, military, and socioeconomic challenges in their history. It attempts to remove the veil of stereotypes and myths obscuring the significant details and developmental processes in the history of Serbia and in its relations with its neighbors. In addition to examining the political history of Serbia in the context of Central Europe, the author, a specialist in Balkan history, shows how societal and cultural developments affected Serbian history and reflected political and economic events.
A timeline of significant events in the history of Serbia and an introductory chapter on Serbia today are followed by 12 chronologically organized narrative chapters that tell the story of this land from the splendor of medieval Serbia to a new beginning after the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. Four historical maps, brief biographies of key figures in Serbian history, a glossary of terms, and a bibliographic essay provide valuable resource material for readers. Every library should update its collection of materials on Serbia with this current history.
List of contents
Preface
Chronology
Serbia Today
The Splendor of Medieval Serbia
Living with the Turks: Ottoman Rule in the Balkans
Revived Serbia: The Wars of Independence and the Building of a New Country
Taking Its Place in the Sun: The Expansion of Serbia
Serbia in the Great War
The Troubled Creation: The First Decades of Yugoslavia
Nazis, Partisans, Chetniks, and Ustase: The Maelstrom of World War II
Serbia in Tito's Yugoslavia
What Price Independence? The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1989-1995
Successor State or Internationsl Pariah?
After Milosevic: A New Beginning
Conclusion
Brief Biographies of Important Figures in Serbia History
Glossary of Foreign and Historical Terms
Bibliographic Essay
Index
About the author
JOHN K. COX is Associate Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University. His main research interest is the twentieth-century intellectual history of the South Slavic lands
s teaching interests include World War I and the Holocaust. A former Rotary scholar in Hungary, and a Fulbright fellow in Austria and Slovenia, he knows Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, German, and several other languages of the region. He is the author of several chapters and essays on nationalism, Yugoslav communism, and Balkan fascism, as well as numerous book reviews about the breakup of Yugoslavia.
