Constructing Yugoslavia
Subtitle: a transnational history
By: Vesna Drapac.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780333925553
Subjects: Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Yugoslavia -- History; Nationalism -- Balkan Peninsula -- History; Yugoslavia -- History; Yugoslavia -- Ethnic relations -- History; Yugoslavia -- Historical geography
Description: "Drapac charts the changing nature of the Yugoslav ideal, demonstrating why Yugoslavism was championed at different times, and by whom. The author also explores why successive attempts at forging a Yugoslav nation have failed, and why, despite this, the idea of a Yugoslav synthesis retained its appeal internationally even as the state was imploding"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements, Introduction, Imagining Savage Europe and Inventing Yugoslavia, 1850-1914 The Expansion of Gallant Serbia into Yugoslavia, 1914-1920 A State in Search of a Nation, 1920-1939 'The future lies with the federative idea': War and Dissolution, 1941-1945 'A society almost free': Tito's Yugoslavia Conclusion Chronology Lists of Prime Ministers and Presidents Notes Bibliography Index.