Yugoslavia and Its Historians

by Naimark, Norman M.; Case, Holly

• ISBN13: 9780804745949
• ISBN10: 0804745943
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journalists, political analysts, diplomats, human rights organization, the United Nations, and other government and intergovernmental organizations. Professional historians of Yugoslavia, however, have been strangely silent about the wars and the breakup of the country. This book is an effort to end that silence. The goal of this volume is to bring together insights from a distinguished group of American and European scholars of Yugoslavia to add depth to our historical understanding of that country's recent struggles. The first part of the volume examines the ways in which images of the Yugoslav past have shaped current understandings of the region. The second part deals more directly with the events of the recent past and also looks forward to some of the problems and future prospects for Yugoslavia's successor states.

Author Biography

Norman M. Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University. His most recent book is Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Holly Case is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Preface	xv
Norman M. Naimark
Part I Images of the Past
Clio amid the Ruins: Yugoslavia and Its Predecessors in Recent Historiography	3	(19)
Dusan J. Djordjevich
``The Proud Name of Hajduks'' : Bandits as Ambiguous Heroes in Balkan Politics and Culture	22	(15)
Wendy Bracewell
The Rise and Fall of Morlacchismo: South Slavic Identity in the Mountains of Dalmatia	37	(16)
Larry Wolff
An Island of Peace in a Turbulent World: Old Ragusans' Statesmanship as a Paradigm for the Modern Balkans	53	(13)
Barisa Krekic
Transhumance	66	(27)
Wayne S. Vucinich
Part II Yugoslavia and After?
South Slav Education: Was There Yugoslavism?	93	(23)
Charles Jelavich
Yugoslavism versus Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene Nationalism: Political, Ideological, and Cultural Causes of the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia	116	(24)
Arnold Suppan
The Macedonian Question and Instability in the Balkans	140	(20)
Andrew Rossos
A Crisis of Identity: Serbia at the End of the Century	160	(19)
Thomas A. Emmert
Heretical Thoughts about the Postcommunist Transition in the Once and Future Yugoslavia	179	(14)
John V. A. Fine
Solving the Wars of Yugoslav Succession	193	(18)
Gale Stokes
Notes	211	(56)
Index	267