Yugoslavia as History 2ed

Lampe, John R.

ISBN 10: 0521774012 / ISBN 13: 9780521774017

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yugoslavia as History 2ed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521774012
• ISBN 13: 9780521774017
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very good

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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.

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.