The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950
Ever since the end of the Cold War the Balkans have preoccupied European public opinion much more than any other region of the old Eastern bloc. To a large extent this is a result of the wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The conflicts of the 1990s raised a series of questions about the nature of Balkan history as compared to an assumed European norm. Even more, they triggered prolonged discussions on the form and timing of foreign engagement in the region, both during the war, and ahead of the eastward expansion of the European Union. These public debates underlay the emergence of a related academic interest in intercultural contacts between the Balkans and the rest of Europe over the last three centuries.

The British and the Balkans is a close study of the history of the image of the Balkans in Britain in the first half of the 20th century, and of the channels through which this image was built. It proposes new interpretative models for broader research in the formation of public images of foreign lands.

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The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950
Ever since the end of the Cold War the Balkans have preoccupied European public opinion much more than any other region of the old Eastern bloc. To a large extent this is a result of the wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The conflicts of the 1990s raised a series of questions about the nature of Balkan history as compared to an assumed European norm. Even more, they triggered prolonged discussions on the form and timing of foreign engagement in the region, both during the war, and ahead of the eastward expansion of the European Union. These public debates underlay the emergence of a related academic interest in intercultural contacts between the Balkans and the rest of Europe over the last three centuries.

The British and the Balkans is a close study of the history of the image of the Balkans in Britain in the first half of the 20th century, and of the channels through which this image was built. It proposes new interpretative models for broader research in the formation of public images of foreign lands.

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The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950

The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950

by Eugene Michail
The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950

The British and the Balkans: Forming Images of Foreign Lands, 1900-1950

by Eugene Michail

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Ever since the end of the Cold War the Balkans have preoccupied European public opinion much more than any other region of the old Eastern bloc. To a large extent this is a result of the wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The conflicts of the 1990s raised a series of questions about the nature of Balkan history as compared to an assumed European norm. Even more, they triggered prolonged discussions on the form and timing of foreign engagement in the region, both during the war, and ahead of the eastward expansion of the European Union. These public debates underlay the emergence of a related academic interest in intercultural contacts between the Balkans and the rest of Europe over the last three centuries.

The British and the Balkans is a close study of the history of the image of the Balkans in Britain in the first half of the 20th century, and of the channels through which this image was built. It proposes new interpretative models for broader research in the formation of public images of foreign lands.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472507518
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/23/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eugene Michail is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Making of Images
1. Past Links Revisited
2. The Ambivalence of Violence
3. The Intimacy of War
4. Experts and their Networks
5. The Imaginative Power of the Trivial
6. Travelling and the Standard of Modernity
Conclusion: Locating the Balkans
Bibliography
Index

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