Bosnia: A Short HistoryThis updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnia's past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the country's destruction. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed Vance-Owen peace plan, the tenuous resolution of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace. |
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BOSNIA: A Short History
User Review - KirkusA useful and brief, but comprehensive, history of Bosnia from earliest times to the brutal present. Until its virtual dismemberment in the past three years, Bosnia was a unique political and cultural ... Read full review
Contents
Bosnia to 1180 | 1 |
The medieval Bosnian state 11801463 | 13 |
The Bosnian Church | 27 |
War and the Ottoman system 14631606 | 43 |
The Islamicization of Bosnia | 51 |
Serbs and Vlachs | 70 |
War and politics in Ottoman Bosnia 16061815 | 82 |
Economic life culture and society in Ottoman | 93 |
Bosnia 19141941 | 156 |
Bosnia and the second world war 19411945 | 174 |
Bosnia in Titoist Yugoslavia 19451989 | 193 |
19891992 | 213 |
19921993 | 234 |
A short survey of events 19931995 | 253 |
Notes | 273 |
Glossary | 317 |
The Jews and the Gypsies of Bosnia | 107 |
Resistance and reform 18151878 | 119 |
Bosnia under AustroHungarian rule 18781914 | 136 |
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