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The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia, Tim Judah

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  • 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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages
Contents
  • The Holy Roots
  • High Noon of Empire
  • Retreat from Empire
  • It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame
  • The Battle and its Aftermath
  • Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
  • The Cult of Death
  • Preserving the Message
  • The Heavenly State
  • Resurrection and Beyond
  • Death Does Not Exist
  • From Pig Dealers to Princes
  • From History into Ideology
  • Creating the New Nationalism
  • Cutting the Turks into Pieces
  • The Burning Tradition
  • Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
  • They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
  • Instinct and Experience: How Many?
  • Union or Death
  • Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
  • Migrations
  • Sarajevo, 1914
  • Agony and Resurrection
  • Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
  • The Empire Restored
  • We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom
  • Decline and Fall
  • Into the Whirlwind
  • Croatia, Kaputt
  • Kosovo: Land of Revenge
  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • The Arrival of the Slavs
  • You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun
  • White Lines and Marble Columns
  • Blind Alleys
  • Rankovic and Beyond
  • Croatian Spring
  • Serbian Summer
  • Kosovo: Use Brute Force
  • Bosnian Spirit
  • A Proposal for Hopelessness
  • Antique God
  • The First Kingdoms
  • Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
  • Frankie and Badger Go to War
  • Framing the Serbs
  • Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
  • You Must Have
  • Bloodshed to Make a Country
  • We've Been Here Before!
  • Rusty Shoehorns
  • The Arrival of the Turks
  • The Military Frontier
  • An Empire on Earth
  • Birth of a Dynasty
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The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia
Title
The Serbs
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history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia
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Tim Judah
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Language
eng
Summary
  • 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
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1962-
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Judah, Tim
Dewey number
949.6/00491822
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
DR1230.S45
LC item number
J83 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Serbs
  • Yugoslavia
  • Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
  • Serbes
  • Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995
  • Yougoslavie
  • Serbios
  • Guerra de Yugoslavia, 1991-1995
  • Serbia
  • Guerres civiles
  • Histoire
  • Relations interethniques
  • Serbie
  • Yougoslavie
  • Yugoslav War (1991-1995)
  • Serbs
  • War
  • Yugoslavia
  • Serviërs
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The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia, Tim Judah
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Holy Roots
  • High Noon of Empire
  • Retreat from Empire
  • It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame
  • The Battle and its Aftermath
  • Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
  • The Cult of Death
  • Preserving the Message
  • The Heavenly State
  • Resurrection and Beyond
  • Death Does Not Exist
  • From Pig Dealers to Princes
  • From History into Ideology
  • Creating the New Nationalism
  • Cutting the Turks into Pieces
  • The Burning Tradition
  • Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
  • They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
  • Instinct and Experience: How Many?
  • Union or Death
  • Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
  • Migrations
  • Sarajevo, 1914
  • Agony and Resurrection
  • Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
  • The Empire Restored
  • We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom
  • Decline and Fall
  • Into the Whirlwind
  • Croatia, Kaputt
  • Kosovo: Land of Revenge
  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • The Arrival of the Slavs
  • You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun
  • White Lines and Marble Columns
  • Blind Alleys
  • Rankovic and Beyond
  • Croatian Spring
  • Serbian Summer
  • Kosovo: Use Brute Force
  • Bosnian Spirit
  • A Proposal for Hopelessness
  • Antique God
  • The First Kingdoms
  • Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
  • Frankie and Badger Go to War
  • Framing the Serbs
  • Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
  • You Must Have
  • Bloodshed to Make a Country
  • We've Been Here Before!
  • Rusty Shoehorns
  • The Arrival of the Turks
  • The Military Frontier
  • An Empire on Earth
  • Birth of a Dynasty
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036858257
Label
The Serbs : history, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia, Tim Judah
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Holy Roots
  • High Noon of Empire
  • Retreat from Empire
  • It Is Better to Die in Battle Than to Live in Shame
  • The Battle and its Aftermath
  • Lazar's Choice: The Empire of Heaven
  • The Cult of Death
  • Preserving the Message
  • The Heavenly State
  • Resurrection and Beyond
  • Death Does Not Exist
  • From Pig Dealers to Princes
  • From History into Ideology
  • Creating the New Nationalism
  • Cutting the Turks into Pieces
  • The Burning Tradition
  • Bosnia's Sulphurous Vapours
  • They Are Not Human Beings: The Balkan Wars
  • Instinct and Experience: How Many?
  • Union or Death
  • Narodno Jedinstvo: The Birth of 'National Unity'?
  • Migrations
  • Sarajevo, 1914
  • Agony and Resurrection
  • Over There, Far Away: Corfu 1917
  • The Empire Restored
  • We Chose the Heavenly Kingdom
  • Decline and Fall
  • Into the Whirlwind
  • Croatia, Kaputt
  • Kosovo: Land of Revenge
  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • The Arrival of the Slavs
  • You Used to Warm Us Like the Sun
  • White Lines and Marble Columns
  • Blind Alleys
  • Rankovic and Beyond
  • Croatian Spring
  • Serbian Summer
  • Kosovo: Use Brute Force
  • Bosnian Spirit
  • A Proposal for Hopelessness
  • Antique God
  • The First Kingdoms
  • Bolshevism Is Bad But Nationalism Is Worse (Radovan Karadzic)
  • Frankie and Badger Go to War
  • Framing the Serbs
  • Goodbye Slovenia, Hello Croatia
  • You Must Have
  • Bloodshed to Make a Country
  • We've Been Here Before!
  • Rusty Shoehorns
  • The Arrival of the Turks
  • The Military Frontier
  • An Empire on Earth
  • Birth of a Dynasty
Extent
1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036858257

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