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Haunted Serbia

Author : David Norris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317196392
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Serbia written by David Norris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past, re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures taken to defend Yugoslavia’s recently won independence and socialist revolution. Their uncanny and ghostly imagery challenges the assumptions of the master discourse promoted by the country’s orthodox communist authorities and questions the historical roots of social and cultural identities. The instability of this period of transition is deepened during the wars of the 1990s, when authors turn from the memory of past violence to face the ferocious brutality of new conflicts. The haunting evocations in their work continue to articulate fresh uncertainties as the trappings of modern civilization are stripped away and replaced by the destructive logic of civil war. The past returns once more with renewed energy in the struggle to make sense of a vastly changed world.

A Concise History of Serbia

Author : Dejan Djokić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028388
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Serbia written by Dejan Djokić and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and engaging single-volume history of Serbia from the Early Middle Ages to the present day.

Eastern European Railways in Transition

Author : Henry Jacolin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317146530
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Eastern European Railways in Transition written by Henry Jacolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations. By the beginning of the twentieth century the great cities of the continent were linked by a complex and extensive rail network. Yet this high-point of interconnectivity, was abruptly cut-off after 1945, as the Cold War built barriers - both physical and ideological - between east and west. In this volume, leading transport history scholars take a fresh look at this situation, and the ramifications it had for Europe. As well as addressing the parallel development of railways either side of the Iron Curtain, the book looks at how transport links have been reconnected and reconfigured in the twenty years since the reunification of Europe. In particular, it focuses upon the former communist countries and how they have responded to the challenges and opportunities railways offer both nationally and internationally. Including contributions from historians, researchers, policy makers, representatives of railway companies and railway museum staff, the essays in this collection touch upon a rich range of subjects. Divided into four sections: 'The Historical Overview', 'Under Russian Protection', After the Fall of the Iron Curtain, and 'The Heritage of Railways in Eastern Europe' the volume offers a broadly chronological introduction to the issue, that provides both a snap-shot of current debates and a starting point for further research. It concludes that in an era of increased globalisation and interconnectivity - and despite the rise of air and road transport and virtual methods of communication - railways still have a crucial role to play in the development of a prosperous and connected Europe.

Crisis and Ontological Insecurity

Author : Filip Ejdus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303020667X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Ontological Insecurity written by Filip Ejdus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics. By building on ontological security theory, this work conceptualises critical situations as radical disjunctions that challenge the ability of collective agents to ‘go on’. These ontological crises bring into the realm of discursive consciousness four fundamental questions related to existence, finitude, relations and autobiography. In times of crisis, collective agents such as states are particularly attached to their ontic spaces, or spatial extensions of the self that cause collective identities to appear more firm and continuous. These theoretical arguments are illustrated in a case study looking at Serbia’s anxiety over the secession of Kosovo. The author argues that Serbia’s seemingly irrational and self-harming policy vis-à-vis Kosovo can be understood as a form of ontological self-help. It is a rational pursuit of biographical continuity and a healthy sense of self in the face of an ontological crisis triggered by the secession of a province that has been constructed as the ontic space of the Serbian nation since the late 19th century.

This Time We Knew

Author : Thomas Cushman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814715354
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book This Time We Knew written by Thomas Cushman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.

The Great Big Book of Ghosts

Author : Robert J Dornan
Publisher : Robert J Dornan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Big Book of Ghosts written by Robert J Dornan and published by Robert J Dornan. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book you are about to read is a reference book that you can turn to for decades to come. I made sure to add fifty true ghost stories from across the globe to spice up the book against the chapters of informative research. I should mention that the ghost stories – other than the London Tower - are in a random order so as to eliminate country repetition. You’ll notice that no matter what country is being represented, the stories all have similar backdrops, meaning that ghosts are not only universal, but far from unique to any specific culture. Nor are they limited to a group of countries. Every nation in the world has their own legends and haunted homes, castles, or battlefields. I enjoyed every second of creating this reference book and I sincerely hope it is a learning experience for you as well as a thought provoking, or creative muse to writers, poets and filmmakers. If you are someone considering a career in the paranormal or paranormal investigation, you must read this book instead of relying on video nonsense. Enjoy and try not to read too much before sleeping as many of these stories are not only engrossing but also horrifying.

The Serbs

Author : Tim Judah
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300147848
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Serbs written by Tim Judah and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the Serbs? Branded by some as Europe's new Nazis, they are seen by others—and by themselves—as the innocent victims of nationalist aggression and of an implacably hostile world media. In this challenging new book, Timothy Judah, who covered the war years in former Yugoslavia for the London Times and the Economist, argues that neither is true. Exploring the Serbian nation from the great epics of its past to the battlefields of Bosnia and the backstreets of Kosovo, he sets the fate of the Serbs within the story of their past. This wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account opens with the windswept fortresses of medieval kings and a battle lost more than six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. Judah describes the idea of "Serbdom" that sustained them during centuries of Ottoman rule, the days of glory during the First World War, and the genocide against them during the Second. He examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its unraveling after his death. And he reveals how Slobodan Milosevic, later to become president, used a version of history to drive his people to nationalist euphoria. Judah details the way Milosevic prepared for war and provides gripping eyewitness accounts of wartime horrors: the burning villages and "ethnic cleansing," the ignominy of the siege of Sarajevo, and the columns of bedraggled Serb refugees, cynically manipulated and then abandoned once the dream of a Greater Serbia was lost. This first in-depth account of life behind Serbian lines is not an apologia but a scrupulous explanation of how the people of a modernizing European state could become among the most reviled of the century. Rejecting the stereotypical image of a bloodthirsty nation, Judah makes the Serbs comprehensible by placing them within the context of their history and their hopes.

Postemotional Society

Author : Stjepan Mestrovic
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473946093
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Postemotional Society written by Stjepan Mestrovic and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd. Introducing a new term to the sociological lexicon: ′postemotionalism′, Stjepan Mestrovic argues that the focus of postmodernism has been on knowledge and information, and he demonstrates how the emotions in mass industrial societies have been neglected to devastating effect. Using contempoary examples, the author shows how emotion has become increasingly separated from action; how - in a world of disjointed and synthetic emotions - social solidarity has become more problematic; and how compassion fatigue has increasingly replaced political commitment and responsibility. Mestrovic discusses the relation between knowledge and the emotions in thinkers as diverse as Durkheim, Baudrillard, Ritzer, Riesman, and Orwell. This stimulating and provocative work concludes with a discussion of the postemotional society, where peer groups replace the government as the means of social control.

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086998
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin written by Evgeny Dobrenko and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the literary and cultural Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II and emphasize the dialogic relationship between the ‘centre’ and the ‘satellites’ instead of the traditional top-down approach. The introduction of the Soviet cultural model was not quite the smooth endeavour that it was made to look in retrospect; rather, it was always a work in progress, often born out of a give-andtake with the local authorities, intellectuals and interest groups. Relying on archival resources, the authors examine one of the most controversial attempts at a cultural unification in Europe by providing an overview with a focus on specific case-studies, an analysis of distinct particularities with attention to the patterns of negotiation and adaptation that were being developed in the process.

Balkan Ghosts

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466868309
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Ghosts written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic travelogue exploring the Balkan Peninsula’s political, social, religious, and economic past. From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as “the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date” (Boston Globe), Kaplan’s prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic. This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power. Praise for Balkan Ghosts “The product of over a decade of travel and research, this is one of precious few works that allows a Western reader a look into the tortured soul of the Balkan peoples. . . . A superior narrative. . . . Kaplan is a master of this genre.” —Library Journal “A memorable portrait of an increasingly important region.” —Kirkus Review

Communism and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia

Author : Veljko Marko Vujacic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Communism and Nationalism in Russia and Serbia written by Veljko Marko Vujacic and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Haunted Globe

Author : Debe Branning
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439676143
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Globe written by Debe Branning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1876, Globe was once a wild and wooly mining camp, and its robberies, murders and mayhem left a dark impression. Tucked at the base of the Pinal Mountains, this historic landmark is a quintessential old western town. Make a stop at the Globe Train Depot and discover why so many spirits have made it their last whistle-stop along the rails. Explore the courthouse and the Old Gila County Jail, where sinister spirit Kingsley Olds is said to still be doing time. Visit the Globe Cemetery where bandits, cowboys and upstanding citizens mingle. Tag along with author and paranormal historian Debe Branning as she digs through some of Globe's deepest secrets and reveals wicked tales.

Writing the Yugoslav Wars

Author : Dragana Obradovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442629568
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Yugoslav Wars written by Dragana Obradovic and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational approach to literatures of the former Yugoslavia that have been, since the 1990s, studied separately, in line with geopolitical divisions. This post-socialist conflict was one of the moments that reshaped postmodernism for both local and international thinkers, much in the same way modernism was shaped by World War I and the advent of mechanized warfare.

Haunted Serbia

Author : David Norris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317196384
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Serbia written by David Norris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the past, re-remembering the cruelty of the twentieth century, reinterpreting the heroic role of the Partisans and the extraordinary measures taken to defend Yugoslavia’s recently won independence and socialist revolution. Their uncanny and ghostly imagery challenges the assumptions of the master discourse promoted by the country’s orthodox communist authorities and questions the historical roots of social and cultural identities. The instability of this period of transition is deepened during the wars of the 1990s, when authors turn from the memory of past violence to face the ferocious brutality of new conflicts. The haunting evocations in their work continue to articulate fresh uncertainties as the trappings of modern civilization are stripped away and replaced by the destructive logic of civil war. The past returns once more with renewed energy in the struggle to make sense of a vastly changed world.

Serbia

Author : Laurence Mitchell
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784770566
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Serbia written by Laurence Mitchell and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt's Serbia remains the most acclaimed guide available to a country which in recent years has welcomed an increasing number of foreign tourists to discover its attractive rolling countryside, lively cities, excellent food and friendly people. Development of tourism infrastructure continues apace in Serbia and this new edition reflects all the changes and trends of recent years, including Belgrade's increasing popularity as a weekend break destination, the continued evolution and rising quality of accommodation across all price brackets in both the capital and beyond, the development of Belgrade's Savamala riverfront area, the rise in popularity of bird-watching holidays, the possibilities for wine tours, and the increase in visitors to the EXIT festival held annually in Novi Sad and to the Guca trumpet festival in central Serbia. Particularly notable since the previous edition is Serbia's dramatic improvement in English-language facilities for visitors, with many towns and cities now having tourist information centres with helpful staff, all of which are detailed in this guide. Written by an expert author, the Bradt guide to Serbia offers up-to-date background information on the country's geography, history, economy, politics and people, as well as a strong emphasis on culture and the arts - music, literature, cinema and art - and on natural history, including a thorough overview of Serbia's best wildlife sites. Comprehensive and up-to-date listings of the best places to stay and eat according to budget are covered, along with reliable public transport information to enable you to travel independently with confidence. This guide recommends facilities and places of interest that will hold appeal for all types of visitor - from impecunious young travellers seeking a fun-filled city break to older visitors who prefer a slower pace and wish to immerse themselves in local tradition. Despite burgeoning interest, Serbia remains one of the least known corners of Europe. Belgrade and second city Novi Sad are lively, cosmopolitan and welcoming, while rural Serbia, with its hidden monasteries and gorgeous countryside, is an undiscovered gem. With the Bradt guide you will be able to discover all this intriguing country has to offer.

Shakespeare in Serbia

Author : Vladeta Popović
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Serbia written by Vladeta Popović and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kosovo and Serbia

Author : Leandrit I. Mehmeti
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981572
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Kosovo and Serbia written by Leandrit I. Mehmeti and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan and China. The highway initially brought sentiments of disconnection and hardship, followed by Soviet modernization and development, and ultimately a sense of distinction from bordering countries and urban centers that continues to this day. Based on extensive fieldwork and through an analysis of construction, mobility, technology, media, development, Islam, and the state, Till Mostowlansky shows how ideas of modernity are both challenged and reinforced in contemporary Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past. Weaving together the road, a population, and a region, Azan on the Moon presents a rich ethnography of global connections