Yugoslavia In The British Imagination
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Yugoslavia in the British Imagination
Author | : Samuel Foster |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350114623 |
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Despite Britain entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, public discourses were imbued with a cultural pessimism and rising social anxiety. Through this study, Samuel Foster explores how this changing domestic climate shaped perceptions of other cultures, and Britain's relationship to them, focusing on those Balkan territories that formed the first Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941. Yugoslavia in the British Imagination examines these connections and demonstrates how the popular image of the region's peasantry evolved from that of foreign 'Other' to historical victim - suffering at the hand of modernity's worst excesses and symbolizing Britain's perceived decline. This coincided with an emerging moralistic sense of British identity that manifested during the First World War. Consequently, Yugoslavia was legitimized as the solution to peasant victimization and, as Foster's nuanced analysis reveals, enabling Britain's imagined (and self-promoted) revival as civilization's moral arbiter. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival sources, this compelling transnational analysis is an important contribution to the study of British social history and the nature of statehood in the modern Balkans.
Yugoslavia
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Author | : Great Britain. Embassy (Yugoslavia). Commercial Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : OCLC:315954346 |
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Imagining the Balkans
Author | : Maria Todorova |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199728381 |
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"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans explored the ontology of the Balkans from the sixteenth century to the present day, uncovering the ways in which an insidious intellectual tradition was constructed, became mythologized, and is still being transmitted as discourse. Maria Todorova, who was raised in the Balkans, is in a unique position to bring both scholarship and sympathy to her subject, and in a new afterword she reflects on recent developments in the study of the Balkans and political developments on the ground since the publication of Imagining the Balkans. The afterword explores the controversy over Todorova's coining of the term Balkanism. With this work, Todorova offers a timely, updated, accessible study of how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into one of the most powerful and widespread pejorative designations in modern history.
Great Britain and the Creation of Yugoslavia
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Author | : James Evans |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 6000013361 |
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Race and the Yugoslav Region
Author | : Catherine Baker |
Publsiher | : Theory for a Global Age |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Former Yugoslav republics |
ISBN | : 1526126621 |
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Describes the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally
Europe and the East
Author | : Mark Hewitson,Jan Vermeiren |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2023-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000878783 |
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This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century. Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe. Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.
Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century
Author | : Bridget Coggins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107047358 |
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From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. The existing scholarly wisdom provides one explanation for success, based on authority and control within the nascent states. With the aid of an expansive new dataset and detailed case studies, this book provides an alternative account. It argues that the strongest members of the international community have a decisive influence over whether today's secessionists become countries tomorrow and that, most often, their support is conditioned on parochial political considerations.
The Improbable Survivor
Author | : Stevan K. Pavlowitch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UVA:X001508109 |
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