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The Balkans

Mark Mazower

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#1129 of 3,809 books · #436 in History

Won the Wolfson History Prize (2001).

Much has been made of the Balkans' deeply rooted enmities. The recent destruction of the former Yugoslavia was widely ascribed to millennial hatreds frozen by the Cold War and unleashed with the fall of communism. Mark Mazower argues that such a view is a dangerously unbalanced fantasy. A reassessment, The Balkans rescues the region's history from the various ideological camps that have held it hostage for their own ends, not least the need to justify nonintervention. The heart of the book deals with events from the emergence of the nation-state onward. Mazower demonstrates that of all the gifts bequeathed to the region by modernity, the most dubious has been the ideological weapon of romantic nationalism that has been used again and again by the power hungry as an acid to dissolve the bonds of centuries of peaceful coexistence. The Balkans is a depiction of a vitally important region, its history and its prospects.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780679640875
Genre
History
Topics
Balkans historyNationalismYugoslav wars

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