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Burn this house : the making and unmaking of Yugoslavia

Author: Jasminka Udovički; James Ridgeway
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Burn This House is the first book in English to represent the critical, nonnationalist voices inside the former Yugoslavia. Written primarily by Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians, this collection relies on the perspective of the people who live there to portray the chain of events that has led to the current genocidal wars in the heart of Europe. These essays elucidate the Balkan tragedy while  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Burn this house.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)605222524
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jasminka Udovički; James Ridgeway
ISBN: 0822320010 9780822320012 0822319977 9780822319979
OCLC Number: 36901000
Description: x, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Bonds and the fault lines / Jasminka Udovicki --
Making of Yugoslavia: 1830-1945 / Branka Prpa-Jovanovic --
Tito: 1945-1980 / Mirko Tepavac --
Interlude: 1980-1990 / Jasminka Udovicki and Ivan Torov --
Media wars: 1987-1997 / Milan Milosevic --
Army's collapse / Stipe Sikavica --
Croatia: the first war / Ejub Stitkovac --
Bosnia and Hercegovina: the second war / Jasminka Udovicki and Ejub Stitkovac --
International aspects of the wars in former Yugoslavia / Susan L. Woodward --
Resistance in Serbia / Ivan Torov --
Oppositon in Croatia / Sven Balas.
Responsibility: Jasminka Udovički & James Ridgeway, editors.

Abstract:

Burn This House is the first book in English to represent the critical, nonnationalist voices inside the former Yugoslavia. Written primarily by Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians, this collection relies on the perspective of the people who live there to portray the chain of events that has led to the current genocidal wars in the heart of Europe. These essays elucidate the Balkan tragedy while directing attention toward the antiwar movement and the work of the independent media that has been largely ignored by the U.S. press. They show that, contrary to descriptions by the Western media, the roots of the warring lie not in ancient Balkan hatreds but rather in a specific set of sociopolitical circumstances that occurred after the death of Tito and culminated at the end of the Cold War.

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