The Balkans
Empire, Nationhood, Faith, and Rivalry in Southeastern EuropeBy Arnold Toynbee, Nevill Forbes, David Mitrany, D. G. Hogarth
Length9h 29m
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The Balkans offers a compact yet capacious examination of a region long imagined as Europe's crossroads, fault line, and archive of layered civilizations. Bringing historical synthesis into conversation with linguistic and cultural inquiry, diplomatic analysis, and archaeological perspective, the collection resists reductive accounts of Balkan difference. Its essays illuminate the entanglement of empire, nationality, religion, territorial ambition, and memory, while the most compelling passages trace how local histories became inseparable from wider European politics. Its contributors represent complementary traditions of early twentieth-century scholarship: comparative history, Slavic studies, international relations, and classical and Near Eastern archaeology. Arnold Toynbee, Nevill Forbes, David Mitrany, and D. G. Hogarth collectively situate the peninsula within the aftermath of imperial decline and the contested formation of modern states. Their varied expertise aligns the volume with debates over nationalism, self-determination, and the geopolitical consequences of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, enriching its account through multiple disciplinary lenses. Recommended for students and general readers alike, The Balkans provides an unusually concentrated opportunity to encounter divergent methods and perspectives within one volume. It rewards close reading for its historical breadth, its educational value, and the productive dialogue it creates among cultural, political, and material approaches to a complex region.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 29 mins
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Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3SERBIA.
4MAPS
5BULGARIA AND SERBIA
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6BULGARIA
7SERBIA
8GREECE
9RUMANIA: HER HISTORY AND POLITICS
10TURKEY
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