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History, Ancient --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Balkan Peninsula --- History.

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"Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia--from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended process, undertaken from a variety of different regional perspectives with varied composite agenda. She shuns traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for Yugoslavia's demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of differences. While analyzing nuanced political and social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way."--Provided by publisher.

Yugoslavia --- Korolevstvo SKhS --- Korolevstvo serbov, khorvatov i sloventsev --- I︠U︡hoslavii︠a︡ --- Jugoslavija --- Federativna Narodna Republika Jugoslavija --- Yougoslavie --- Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca --- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes --- Socijalistička Federativna Republika Jugoslavija --- SFRJ --- Socjalistyczna Federacyjna Republika Jugosłavii --- Jugoszláv Szocialista Szövetségi Köztársaság --- SFRI︠U︡ --- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia --- Nan-ssu-la-fu --- Nansilafu --- Sot︠s︡ialisticheskai︠a︡ Federativnai︠a︡ Respublika I︠U︡goslavii︠a︡ --- Federatyvna Narodna Respublika I︠U︡hoslavii︠a︡ --- FNRI︠U︡ --- I︠U︡goslavii︠a︡ --- Yugosŭllabia --- Yugoslavyah --- Iugoslavia --- Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia --- République fédérative populaire de Yougoslavie --- République socialiste fédérative de Yougoslavie --- RSFY --- FNRJ --- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia --- Sot︠s︡ialistychna Federatyvna Respublika I︠U︡hoslavii︠a︡ --- Savezna Republika Jugoslavija --- Soi︠u︡zna Respublika I︠U︡hoslavii︠a︡ --- SRI︠U︡ --- Jugoslavia --- FR Yugoslavia --- Kraljevina Jugoslavija --- Kingdom of Yugoslavia --- FLRJ --- Federativna ljudska republika Jugoslavija --- Jugoszlávia --- Serbia and Montenegro --- History --- History / Europe --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Balkans

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We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe. Marie-Janine Calic reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe's position at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Krujë in 1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished even his friend Casanova. Calic's ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.--

History, Ancient. --- History, Ancient. --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan Peninsula. --- Südosteuropa. --- History.