The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia / Tim Judah.
1997
DR1230.S46 J83 1997
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Title
The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia / Tim Judah.
Author
ISBN
0300071132 (cloth)
9780300071139 (cloth)
9780300076561 (pbk.)
0300076568 (pbk.)
9780300071139 (cloth)
9780300076561 (pbk.)
0300076568 (pbk.)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Language
English
Description
xvii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
DR1230.S46 J83 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36042583
Summary
This wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account opens with the windswept fortresses of medieval kings and a battle lost more than six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. Judah describes the idea of "Serbdom" that sustained them during centuries of Ottoman rule, the days of glory during the First World War, and the genocide against them during the Second. He examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its unraveling after his death. And he reveals how Slobodan Milosevic, later to become president, used a version of history to drive his people to nationalist euphoria. Judah details the way Milosevic prepared for war and provides gripping eyewitness accounts of wartime horrors: the burning villages and "ethnic cleansing," the ignominy of the siege of Sarajevo, and the columns of bedraggled Serb refugees, cynically manipulated and then abandoned once the dream of a Greater Serbia was lost.
This first in-depth account of life behind Serbian lines is not an apologia but a scrupulous explanation of how the people of a modernizing European state could become among the most reviled of the century. Rejecting the stereotypical image of a bloodthirsty nation, Judah makes the Serbs comprehensible by placing them within the context of their history and their hopes.
This first in-depth account of life behind Serbian lines is not an apologia but a scrupulous explanation of how the people of a modernizing European state could become among the most reviled of the century. Rejecting the stereotypical image of a bloodthirsty nation, Judah makes the Serbs comprehensible by placing them within the context of their history and their hopes.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Death Does Not Exist
Migrations
The Arrival of the Slavs
The First Kingdoms
The Arrival of the Turks
The Military Frontier
An Empire on Earth
Birth of a Dynasty
The Holy Roots
High Noon of Empire
Retreat from Empire
It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame
The Battle and its Aftermath
Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
The Cult of Death
Preserving the Message
The Heavenly State
Resurrection and Beyond
From Pig Dealers to Princes
From History into Ideology
Creating the New Nationalism
Cutting the Turks into Pieces
The Burning Tradition
Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
Instinct and Experience: How Many?
Union or Death
Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
Sarajevo, 1914
Agony and Resurrection
Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
The Empire Restored
We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom
Decline and Fall
Into the Whirlwind
Croatia, Kaputt
Kosovo: Land of Revenge
Frankenstein's Monster
You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun
White Lines and Marble Columns
Blind Alleys
Rankovic and Beyond
Croatian Spring
Serbian Summer
Kosovo: Use Brute Force
Bosnian Spirit
A Proposal for Hopelessness
Antique God
Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
Frankie and Badger Go to War
Framing the Serbs
Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
You Must Have
Bloodshed to Make a Country
We've Been Here Before!
Rusty Shoehorns.
Migrations
The Arrival of the Slavs
The First Kingdoms
The Arrival of the Turks
The Military Frontier
An Empire on Earth
Birth of a Dynasty
The Holy Roots
High Noon of Empire
Retreat from Empire
It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame
The Battle and its Aftermath
Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
The Cult of Death
Preserving the Message
The Heavenly State
Resurrection and Beyond
From Pig Dealers to Princes
From History into Ideology
Creating the New Nationalism
Cutting the Turks into Pieces
The Burning Tradition
Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
Instinct and Experience: How Many?
Union or Death
Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
Sarajevo, 1914
Agony and Resurrection
Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
The Empire Restored
We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom
Decline and Fall
Into the Whirlwind
Croatia, Kaputt
Kosovo: Land of Revenge
Frankenstein's Monster
You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun
White Lines and Marble Columns
Blind Alleys
Rankovic and Beyond
Croatian Spring
Serbian Summer
Kosovo: Use Brute Force
Bosnian Spirit
A Proposal for Hopelessness
Antique God
Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
Frankie and Badger Go to War
Framing the Serbs
Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
You Must Have
Bloodshed to Make a Country
We've Been Here Before!
Rusty Shoehorns.
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