The Serbs
By: Sima M. Ćirković ; translated by Vuk Tošić.
Contributors: Tošić, Vuk.
Series: The peoples of Europe
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780631204718
Subjects: Serbs -- History; National characteristics, Serbian; Serbia -- History; Yugoslavia -- History
Description: xxix, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-300) and index. Translated from the Serbo-Croat.
Table of contents: title: List of Plates … viii; title: List of Maps … x; title: Preface and Acknowledgements … xi; title: Introduction:  Time, Space, and People … xvi; title: ◦; title: 1. ANCIENT HERITAGE … 1; title: The Roman Provinces … 1; title: Settlement of the Slavs … 7; title: Sclavinias … 10; title: Christianization … 15; title: The Theme of Serbia and the Principality of Serbia …20; title: The Coastal Principalities … 24; title: The Town of Ras and Raška Land … 29; title: ◦; title: 2. THE DYNASTY OF SACRED ROOTS … 34; title: Nemanja’s Legacy … 34; title: Independent Kingdom … 38; title: The Autocephalous Archbishopric … 40; title: Stability Put to the Test … 46; title: Two Kingdoms … 49; title: Economic Development … 52; title: Dynastic Ideal and Reality … 58; title: The Empire … 63; title: Land of the Emperor and Land of the King … 67; title: Unfinished Society … 71; title: Rift within the Dynasty … 75; title: ◦; title: 3. BETWEEN THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT … 77; title: The New Lords and the End of the Dynasty … 77; title: Transfer of the Kingdom to Bosnia … 80; title: The Battle of Kosovo – Reality and Myth … 82; title: The Consequences … 85; title: The Despot and His Land … 87; title: The Restless Littoral … 91; title: Economic Progress … 93; title: Continuity as an Ideal … 96; title: The Burden of Double Vassalage … 101; title: A Chronicle of Demise … 105; title: ◦; title: 4. THE SULTAN’S PROTECTED SUBJECTS … 111; title: The Old and the New … 111; title: Flight, Migration, and Settlement … 115; title: The Orientalization of Towns:  Varos and Kasaba … 120; title: Economic Life … 126; title: Clans and Clan Society … 129; title: The Church in Slavery … 133; title: From Submission to Rebellion … 140; title: ◦; title: 5. THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN CHRISTIAN SOCIETY … 146; title: A New State Framework … 146; title: Extending and Reorganizing the Framework … 151; title: Peasants and Citizens, Soldiers and Nobles … 157; title: Christian Education … 162; title: The Beginning of Europeanization … 167; title: ◦; title: 6. THE ERA OF DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS; title: “The Serbian Revolution” … 176; title: Imposed Revolution … 183; title: From Princely Autonomy to Autonomous Principality … 190; title: The Serbs and Serbia in the Revolution of 1848 … 196; title: ◦; title: 7. NATIONAL STATE:  FOR AND AGAINST … 204; title: Changes in Reality and Changes in Ideas … 204; title: Ruling Nation … 211; title: National Minority … 217; title: In the Center of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875-8) … 221; title: Diverging Paths of Development … 226; title: Constitution and Parliament Put to the Test … 237; title: Times of War … 243; title: ◦; title: 8. ALL THE SERBS IN ONE STATE … 252; title: Between Unitarian Ideal and Pluralist Reality … 252; title: Yugoslavia Decreed … 261; title: Death and Resurrection … 269; title: Reconstruction and Development … 274; title: Modernization through Socialism … 279; title: Epilogue:  Breakup of the Federation and the Struggle for a National State … 288; title: ◦; title: Select Bibliography … 297; title: Index … 301