Battling Over the Balkans

Historiographical Questions and Controversies
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-963-386-325-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

The tumultuous history of the Balkans has been subject to a plethora of conflicting interpretations, both local and external. In an attempt to help overcome the stereotypes that still pervade Balkan history, Battling over the Balkans concentrates on a set of five principal controversies from the precommunist period with which the region’s history and historiography must contend: the pre-1914 Ottoman and Eastern Christian Orthodox legacies; the post-1918 struggles for state-building; the range of European economic and cultural influences across the interwar period, as opposed to diplomatic or political intervention; the role of violence and paramilitary forces in challenging the interwar political regimes in the region; and the fate of ethnic minorities into and after World War II, particularly Jews, Muslims and Roma. In an attempt to give a voice to eminent local authors, the chapters provide samples of new regional scholarship exploring these contested issues—most of them translated into English for the first time—and are prefaced with historiographical overviews addressing the state of the debate on these specific controversies. These translations help bridge the language barriers that often separate scholarly traditions within Southeast Europe, as well as scholars in Southeast Europe and English-speaking academia. This volume will enable readers to identify common patterns and influences that characterize the writing of history in the region, and will stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to the history of the Balkans.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iordachi, Constantin

Lampe, John R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beyond Stereotypes: Recent Trends in the Historiography on the Balkans John R. Lampe and Constantin IordachiChapter 1. The Ottoman Balkans and Nation-Building Bulgarian Debates on the Ottoman Political Legacy Roumiana Preshlenova Greek Historiography and the Role of the Orthodox Church Vangelis KechriotisChapter 2. Struggling with State-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia Recent Croatian Historiography on the Interwar Period Vjeran Pavlakovi? Recent Serbian Historiography on the Interwar Period Vladan Jovanovi?Chapter 3. Irregular Violence: Bandits, Guerillas, and Militias Irregular Violence: Bandits, Guerillas, and Militias in Southeastern European Historiography James Frusetta and Stefan Sotiris PapaioannouChapter 4. European Influence and Reaction: Economics and Culture The Retreat from Economic History Roumiana Preshlenova and John R. Lampe European Cultural Influences in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria Roumiana Preshlenova and John R. LampeChapter 5. The Jews and Other Minorities during World War II The Holocaust and the Treatment of Minorities in Wartime Balkans Constantin Iordachi and James FrusettaList of Contributors, Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Constantin Iordachi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University and President of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.

John R. Lampe is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Global Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Among his many publications, his most recent book is Balkans into Southeastern Europe, 1914–2014, A Century of War and Transition (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014).