Αρχική / Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες / Ιστορία / Μοντέρνα Ευρωπαϊκή Ιστορία / The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe

The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe

ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑΣ
Τιμή
37,80 €
42,00 € -10%
Διαθέσιμο κατόπιν παραγγελίας
Αποστέλλεται σε 15 - 25 ημέρες.

Προσθήκη στα αγαπημένα

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe.

Marie-Janine Calic reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe’s position at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Krujë in 1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished even his friend Casanova.

Calic’s ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.

Συγγραφέας: Calic Marie-Janine
Εκδότης: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 736
ISBN: 9780674983922
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2019
  • List of Maps*
  • Introduction
  • 1. Southeastern Europe before 1500
  • 2. Rise of the Ottoman Empire
  • 3. Challenges of the Ancien Régime
  • 4. The Age of Global Revolutions
  • 5. Toward the Nation-State
  • 6. Imperialism and Crisis
  • 7. From the Balkan Wars to the Second World War
  • 8. Globalization and Fragmentation
  • Conclusion: Southeastern Europe and the World
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • * Maps
    • Map 0.1. Southeastern Europe in 2018
    • Map 1.1. Southeastern Europe in 1200
    • Map 2.1. Ottoman expansion
    • Map 2.2. Southeastern Europe in 1475
    • Map 2.3. The Ottoman world of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
    • Map 3.1. Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
    • Map 7.1. Southeastern Europe in 1930

Marie-Janine Calic is Professor of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She served as a political adviser to the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe in Brussels and for the UN Special Representative for the Former Yugoslavia in Zagreb. She also worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, and the Conflict Prevention Network of the European Commission and Parliament in Brussels. Calic has published and lectured extensively about the Balkans and is a regular commentator on Balkan affairs for the German media.

Σας προτείνουμε

Newsletter

Εγγραφείτε στο newsletter για να λαμβάνετε πρώτοι τις νέες κυκλοφορίες και τις προσφορές μας
Ο λογαριασμός σας Τα αγαπημένας σας

Αυτός ο ιστότοπος χρησιμοποιεί cookies

Χρησιμοποιούμε cookies για να έχετε μια προσωποποιημένη εμπειρία, την εξατομίκευση περιεχομένου και διαφημίσεων, την παροχή λειτουργιών social media και την ανάλυση της επισκεψιμότητάς μας. Επιπλέον, μοιραζόμαστε πληροφορίες για τον τρόπο που χρησιμοποιείτε τον ιστότοπό μας με συνεργάτες social media, διαφήμισης και αναλύσεων.