This updated edition of Noel Malcolms highlyacclaimed Bosnia A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the AustroHungarians overlapped. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnias past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the countrys destruction. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed VanceOwen peace plan, the tenuous resolution of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace. What went wrong in the country where Christians and Muslims mingled and tolerated each other for over five centuries? It was a land with a vibrant political and cultural history, unlike any other in Europe, where great powers and religionsthe empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans the faiths of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam overlapped and combined. In this first Englishlanguage history of Bosnia, Noel Malcolm provides a narrative chronicle of the country from its beginnings to its tragic end. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnias past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the countrys destruction the political strategy of the Serbian leadership,...

Binding: Paperback;386 pages; Publisher: NYU Press - IPS; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 548 g; Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 26

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