The Serbs /
This sweeping history of the Serbian people starts with the settlement of the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula in the seventh century and ends with the dissolution of Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth. Drawing on his own research and on contemporary literature, Sima Cirkovic looks at how the Serbs...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Serbian |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004
Malden, MA ; Oxford : 2004 Malden, MA : 2004 |
| Series: | The peoples of Europe
Peoples of Europe |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : time, space, and people
- 1 Ancient heritage
- 2. The dynasty of sacred roots
- 3. Between the cross and the crescent
- 4. The Sultan's protected subjects
- 5. The emergence of modern Christian society
- 6. The era of democratic revolutions
- 7. National state : for and against
- 8. All the Serbs in one state.
- Introduction : time, space, and people
- 1 Ancient heritage
- 2. dynasty of sacred roots
- 3. Between the cross and the crescent
- 4. Sultan's protected subjects
- 5. emergence of modern Christian society
- 6. era of democratic revolutions
- 7. National state : for and against
- 8. All the Serbs in one state.
- Introduction: Time, Space, and People xvi
- 1 Ancient Heritage 1
- The Roman Provinces 1
- Settlement of the Slavs 7
- Sclavinias 10
- Christianization 15
- The Theme of Serbia and the Principality of Serbia 20
- The Coastal Principalities 24
- The Town of Ras and Raska Land 29
- 2 The Dynasty of Sacred Roots 34
- Nemanja's Legacy 34
- Independent Kingdom 38
- The Autocephalous Archbishopric 40
- Stability Put to the Test 46
- Two Kingdoms 49
- Economic Development 52
- Dynastic Ideal and Reality 58
- The Empire 63
- Land of the Emperor and Land of the King 67
- Unfinished Society 71
- Rift within the Dynasty 75
- 3 Between the Cross and the Crescent 77
- The New Lords and the End of the Dynasty 77
- Transfer of the Kingdom to Bosnia 80
- The Battle of Kosovo--Reality and Myth 82
- The Consequences 85
- The Despot and His Land 87
- The Restless Littoral 91
- Economic Progress 93
- Continuity as an Ideal 96
- The Burden of Double Vassalage 101
- A Chronicle of Demise 105
- 4 The Sultan's Protected Subjects 111
- The Old and the New 111
- Flight, Migration, and Settlement 115
- The Orientalization of Towns: Varos and Kasaba 120
- Economic Life 126
- Clans and Clan Society 129
- Church in Slavery 133
- From Submission to Rebellion 140
- 5 The Emergence of Modern Christian Society 146
- A New State Framework 146
- Extending and Reorganizing the Framework 151
- Peasants and Citizens, Soldiers and Nobles 157
- Christian Education 162
- The Beginning of Europeanization 167
- 6 The Era of Democratic Revolutions 176
- "The Serbian Revolution" 176
- Imposed Revolution 183
- From Prince's Autonomy to Autonomous Principality 190
- The Serbs and Serbia in the Revolution of 1848 196
- 7 National State: For and Against 204
- Changes in Reality and Changes in Ideas 204
- Ruling Nation 211
- National Minority 217
- In the Center of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875-8) 221
- Diverging Paths of Development 226
- Constitution and Parliament Put to the Test 237
- Times of War 243
- 8 All the Serbs in One State 252
- Between Unitarian Ideal and Pluralist Reality 252
- Yugoslavia Decreed 261
- Death and Resurrection 269
- Reconstruction and Development 274
- Modernization through Socialism 279
- Epilogue: Breakup of the Federation and the Struggle for a National State 288