Yugoslavia as History 2ed - Softcover

Lampe, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521774012 ISBN 13: 9780521774017

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Yugoslavia as History is the first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history. This new edition of John Lampe's accessible and authoritative history devotes a full new chapter to the tragic ethnic wars that have followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Kosovo. John Lampe concentrates on the connection, real and imagined, between these conflicts and the experience of the successor states, the two Yugoslavias and their predecessors.

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From the Back Cover:

Yugoslavia as History is the first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history and that of its ethnic mosaic. A Yugoslav idea had already emerged before World War I, and it led to two states called Yugoslavia, between 1918 and 1941, and from 1945 until 1991. This book examines the origins of that idea among the related but separate peoples who have populated the region over the last 1,000 years, drawing out connections to both states and to the violent end of Tito's Yugoslavia in 1991. The author follows these peoples, their institutions and ideas from their earliest interaction, into the two world wars and the states which resulted from them, detailing the tortuous search for political and economic viability which characterised Yugoslavia as a state. Accessible and authoritative, this book provides a unique insight into the origins of the tragedy that has overtaken the region.

Review:

"Lampe...is an authority on the Balkans whose dispassionate judgments provide unique insights into the origins of the collapse." Boston Globe

"Yugoslavia as History sketches an indispensable historical background to the cataclysmic events that swept away an entire country. Lampe's book is a corrective to both the hostile and the nostalgic approaches to Yugoslavia. The real story is much more complex, and Lampe tells it with insight, judgment, and clarity." Warren Zimmermann, US Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1989-1992 and author of Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521774012
• ISBN 13: 9780521774017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512