Balkan currents
Subtitle: studies in the history, culture and society of a divided land
By: edited by Lawrence A. Tritle.
Contributors: Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946-; Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Modern Greek Studies.
Series: Monographs in Balkan studies
Publisher: Loyola Marymount University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Nationalism -- Balkan Peninsula -- Congresses.; Balkan Peninsula -- History -- Congresses.; Balkan Penisula -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Description: Perhaps nowhere else is tolerance in greater need than in the Balkans, a region torn by ethnic, spiritual, and cultural rivalries for over a thousand years. "Balkanize" has entered the English language as a verb to describe division and discord, and today, as in the past, a miscalculation based on misinformation or a lack of information could easily result in an explosion with dire repercussions not only for the European community but the wider Atlantic world as well.

The papers collected in this volume, the result of an international symposium held at Loyola Marymount University, offer an attempt toward understanding old hatreds and divisions. They allow us a glimpse of why the Balkans remain, just as in 1914, a powder keg close to explosion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at "The Balkans today", a symposium  held at Loyola Marymount University, Oct. 15, 1994.