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9780312424930

Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312424930

  • ISBN10:

    0312424930

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-01
  • Publisher: Picador

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Summary

This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between l996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power

Author Biography

Robert D. Kaplan, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, is the author of ten books on travel and foreign affairs translated into many languages. They included Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, a sequel to Balkan Ghosts.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Assorted Commentary by Author xiii
Preface xxxvii
Acknowledgments xxxix
Map of the Balkans xli
Prologue: Saints, Terrorists, Blood, and Holy Water xliii
PART I. YUGOSLAVIA: HISTORICAL OVERTURES
1 Croatia: "Just So They Could Go to Heaven"
3(26)
2 Old Serbia and Albania: Balkan "West Bank"
29(20)
3 Macedonia: "A Hand Thirsting Towards the Realm of the Stars"
49(22)
4 The White City and Its Prophet
71(8)
PART 2. ROMANIA: LATIN PASSION PLAY
5 Athenee Palace, Bucharest
79(21)
6 The Danube's Bitter End
100(17)
7 Moldavia: "Conditioned to Hate"
117(17)
8 The Land Beyond Dracula's Castle: The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
134(14)
9 Transylvanian Voices
148(21)
10 Transylvanian Tale: The Pied Piper's Children Go Back to Hamelin
169(12)
11 Last Glimpses: Timisoara and Bucharest
181(12)
PART 3. BULGARIA: TALES FROM COMMUNIST BYZANTIUM
12 "The Warmth of Each Other's Bodies"
193(21)
13 The Price of Friendship
214(6)
14 The Bad and the Good
220(13)
PART 4. GREECE: WESTERN MISTRESS, EASTERN BRIDE
15 Farewell to Salonika
233(16)
16 "Teach Me, Zorba. Teach Me to Dance!"
249(11)
17 The Secret History
260(22)
Epilogue: The Road to Adrianople 282(6)
Selected Bibliography 288(9)
Index 297

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