Author: Ferdinand Schevill
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Balkans in World History
Author: Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.
The History of the Balkan Peninsula
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher:
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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A History of the Balkan Peoples
Author: René Ristelhueber
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
History of the Balkans
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher: Ozymandias Press
ISBN: 1531279392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to lift, to the twentieth century of the Christian era is a span of about three thousand years. During that long stretch of time what migrations, wars, settlements, worships, and civilizations make their appearance in the deep perspective of Balkan history! What peoples march across the soil, fair-haired, strong-limbed warriors clothed in skins, succeeded by dark, bronzed men, curved over the backs of horses and alert for plunder! What empires come and go, one moment mounting resistlessly like a wave of the sea, the next dissolving in a cloud of spray! An epic tale is about to engage our attention calling for infinite patience with the intricacies of a deliberately moving plot and demanding an unswerving attachment to pilgrim man as well as a constantly renewed interest in the riddle of his destiny...
Publisher: Ozymandias Press
ISBN: 1531279392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to lift, to the twentieth century of the Christian era is a span of about three thousand years. During that long stretch of time what migrations, wars, settlements, worships, and civilizations make their appearance in the deep perspective of Balkan history! What peoples march across the soil, fair-haired, strong-limbed warriors clothed in skins, succeeded by dark, bronzed men, curved over the backs of horses and alert for plunder! What empires come and go, one moment mounting resistlessly like a wave of the sea, the next dissolving in a cloud of spray! An epic tale is about to engage our attention calling for infinite patience with the intricacies of a deliberately moving plot and demanding an unswerving attachment to pilgrim man as well as a constantly renewed interest in the riddle of his destiny...
The Balkans
Author: Nevill Forbes
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The history of the Balkan peninsula
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Balkan Peninsula and the Near East
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The Balkans
Author: William Milligan Sloane
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The History of the Balkan Peninsula, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
From the earliest times to the present day.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
From the earliest times to the present day.
The History of the Balkan Peninsula, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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