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Cargando... The Balkans in World History (The New Oxford World History)por Andrew Wachtel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. For being such a slim volume, it contains a great amount of both history and theory on the development of a very jumbled section of the world. More than the actual historical study itself, I enjoyed the portions of the book that focused on the why and why not--how the 20th century conflicts in the area got started, why there was so much diversity in the area. I also think this book serves as a good jumping-off point for those interested in learning about the building of nation-states, and those concerned about the reasons behind present conflict hot-spots. My only complaint would have to be the aforementioned slimness of the volume--I think if Wachtel took more time to add in more historical points and draw out his conclusions more, it would be a definite five-star read. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening but ill-defined space. Most attempts at definition focus on geography (the actual mountain range that gives the area its name and the lands surrounding it) or, more recently, on the set of prejudicesattached to the term by local and outside observers. There has been far less concern with attempting to define this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point not geography as such but rather the cultural, historical, and social threads that could allow us to see what might be merelycontiguous places as a coherent, though complex, whole. The goal of this volume is to do precisely that. The Balkans should probably be defined as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce acomplex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans can be seen as a history ofcreative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Each civilization has thus been hybridized, modified, and amplified by other voices and traditions. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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