Burn This House

Burn This House

The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia

  • Auteur: Udovicki, Jasminka; Ridgeway, James
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822325758
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822380917
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2000
  • Mois : Octobre
  • Pages: 400
  • DDC: 949.7
  • Langue: Anglais
With Muslim, Croatian, and Serbian journalists and historians as contributors, Burn This House portrays the chain of events that led to the recent wars in the heart of Europe. Comprised of critical, nonnationalist voices from the former Yugoslavia, this volume elucidates the Balkan tragedy while directing attention toward the antiwar movement and the work of the independent media that have largely been ignored by the U.S. press. Updated since its first publication in 1997, this expanded edition, more relevant than ever, includes material on new developments in Kosovo.
The contributors 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. In bringing together these essays, Serbian-born sociologist Jasminka Udovicki and Village Voice Washington correspondent James Ridgeway provide essential historical background for understanding the turmoil in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo and expose the catalytic role played by the propaganda of a powerful few on all sides of what eventually became labeled an ethnic dispute.
Burn This House offers a poignant, informative, and fully up-to-date explication of the continuing Balkan tragedy.

Contributors. Sven Balas, Milan Milosevi´c Branka Prpa-Jovanovi´c, James Ridgeway, Stipe Sikavica, Ejub Stitkovac, Mirko Tepavac, Ivan Torov, Jasminka Udovicki, Susan Woodward


  • CONTENTS
  • Preface, James Ridgeway
  • Introduction, Jasminka Udovički
  • The Bonds and the Fault Lines, Jasminka Udovički
  • The Making of Yugoslavia: 1830--1945, Branka Prpa-Jovanović
  • Tito: 1945–1980, Mirko Tepavac
  • The Interlude: 1980–1990, Jasminka Udovički and Ivan Torov
  • The Media Wars: 1987–1997, Milan Milošević
  • The Army’s Collapse, Stipe Sikavica
  • Croatia: The First War, Ejub Štitkovac
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina: The Second War, Jasminka Udovički and Ejub Štitkovac
  • International Aspects of theWars in Former Yugoslavia: 1990–1996, Susan L. Woodward
  • The Resistance in Serbia, Ivan Torov
  • The Opposition in Croatia, Sven Balas
  • Neither War Nor Peace, Jasminka Udovički
  • Kosovo, Jasminka Udovički
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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