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Mazower,Mark

The Balkans

Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2000

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Year of publication
2000
ISBN
0297643991
Place of printing
London
Author
Mazower,Mark
Publishers
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Keyword
BALKANS GREECE YUGOSLAVIA ALBANIA CROATIA BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA., MONTENEGRO MACEDONIA, SERBIA, SLOVENIA
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

"At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever." "Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and replaces stereotypes with an account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped their inhabitants' lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia the Balkans has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Mountain ranges made farming hard and political control almost impossible and allowed small communities to live side by side through to the end of the twentieth century. Empires based on religion not ethnicity shaped customs and beliefs in ways that did not entirely vanish with the coming of modernity." A short but well researched introduction to the complex and always compelling history of the Balkans. 160p. bibliography. index

Edizione: 1st uk ed.