The Balkans: A Post-Communist HistoryRoutledge, 24 հնվ, 2007 թ. - 640 էջ 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 Kosova. 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 1980s, The Balkans includes brief overviews of the history of each state prior to the 1980s to provide the background to enable all students of Eastern European history to make sense of the more recent developments. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 79–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... thatthe notion of 'Balkanization' is fraught with dangers of crude andhighly misleading cultural stereotyping and national caricatures. This book ishighlycritical of theoften crude, arrogantand profoundly ignorant generalizations ...
... thatthe doctrineof'national selfdetermination'would bethe guiding principle of the post1918 peace settlements, theresult has beento make ethnic collectivism, ethnic discrimination and the preferentialstatus of numericallydominant ethnic ...
... thatthe source ofallpower is . . .the racially orethnically pure dominant majority within any arbitrarily giventerritory ...Countries, states,nationscanbe reshaped at will, regardless of theirancienttraditionsor present interests ...
... thatthe socalled economic 'transitions' that haveoccurred in eachof Europe'sformerly Communistruled ... that the economic systems established by the former Communist regimes were in any meaningful sense 'socialist' rather than ...
... thatthe presumed 'Illyrians' were 'honest', 'hospitable' and 'polytheistic', spokean 'Illyrian' IndoEuropean language and mainlylivedin fortifiedplaces of refuge protected by thick wallsbuilt with huge roughhewn stones,either onthe tops ...
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The Balkans: A Post-communist History Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries,Bideleux/Jeffri Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2007 |