Full name: The Balkans: A Short History

Author: Mark Mazower Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812966213 081296621X

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years. Focusing on events from the emergence of the nation-state onward, The Balkans reveals with piercing clarity the historical roots of current conflicts and gives a landmark reassessment of the region's history, from the world wars and the Cold War to the collapse of communism, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the continuing search for stability in southeastern Europe. This book is part of the "Modern Library Chronicles" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The Korean War" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Uncivil Society" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Prehistory" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Company" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Inventing Japan" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The American Revolution" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Hitler and the Holocaust" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Renaissance" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Islam" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Communism" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Uses and Abuses of History" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Balkans by Misha Glenny The Serbs by Tim Judah Kosovo by Noel Malcolm Civilization by Roger Osborne The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Early Medieval Balkans by John V. A. Fine Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt Civilization on Trial by Arnold J. Toynbee The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Civilization in the West by Mark Kishlansky Bosnia by Noel Malcolm Evicted by Matthew Desmond Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan