| Title : | The Balkans : a post-communist history |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Robert Bideleux, Author ; Ian Jeffries, Author |
| Publisher: | London, New York : Routledge |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Pagination: | xix, 620 p. |
| Layout: | maps |
| Size: | 24 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-415-22963-0 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-608)
Includes index (p. [609]-620) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Balkan Peninsula
History - Ballkan
Post-communism
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| Class number: | 949.6 |
| Abstract: | An excellent companion volume to the successful A History of Eastern Europe, this is a country-by-country treatment of the contemporary history of each of the Balkan states: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo. With a distinctive conceptual framework for explaining divergent patterns of historical change, the book shifts the emphasis away from traditional cultural explanations and concentrates on the pervasive influence of strongly entrenched vertical power-structures and power-relations. Focusing on political and economic continuities and changes since the 1980, The Balkans includes brief overviews of the history of each state prior to the 1980 to provide the background to enable all students of Eastern European history to make sense of the more recent developments. |
| Contents note: | Conceptual Frameworks: "The Balkans" and the Nature of Post-Communist Democratization and Economic Transformations; Albania : Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Bulgaria : The Devil Has All the Best Tunes; Romania : The Road to the EU Is Paved with Good Intentions; Croatia : Paying a Price; Serbia : From Serbdom to Pariahdom; Bosnia and Herzegovina : the travails of coexistence; Macedonia : Towards a Bi-National State; Montenegro : To Be or Not to Be?; Kosovo : The Painful Birth of a Nation; Between European Integration and Western Tutelage; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15660 |
