Explaining Yugoslavia
Format:Hardback
Publisher:C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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This text charts the continuities and discontinuities underlying the apparently confused transformation of the South Slav lands over the last 150 years. As well as the political dimension, it deals with the semi-peripheral position of the region in relation to metropolitan Europe and the process of modernization. Other themes include the passing of peasant society, the emergence of new class and economic structures, kinship, clientship, religion and atachment to locality. The text aims to explain how and why th estructures of South Slav society have changed, for better or worse, since the mid-19th century.
'As a panoramic account of the Yugoslav idea and its development over the twentieth century, Explaining Yugoslavia deserves a wide readership.' -Times Literary Supplement'Allock fulfills the promise of his book's title in a way that will surprise most readers A... The book's assertions will provoke controversy, but its breadth is unchallenged.' -Library Journal'There is much more of interest in Allock's sophisticated and intelligent book. He has sensible and reasonable arguments for the weakness of civil society.' -The New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781850652779
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Weight: 880g