Between nation and state
Subtitle: Serbian politics in Croatia before the First World War
By: Nicholas J. Miller.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies; Series in Russian and East European studies.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Serbs -- Croatia -- Politics and government.; Croatia -- Politics and government -- 1800-1918.
Description: Nicholas J. Miller's work is the first in English to focus on the Serbian community of Croatia, examining the political alternatives faced by Serbian political leaders in Croatia before 1914. During this time, Serbs and Croats living in Croatia formed the Croat-Serbian Coalition and attempted to overcome their mutual suspicion and work together to gain autonomy for Croatia.

Miller argues that their failure contributed mightily to their inability to establish a civic/democratic tradition in interwar Yugoslavia. The cleavages - political, ethnic, and regional - that Miller analyzes are still relevant today. While the core of the book focuses on the behavior of two Serbian parties in Croatian politics between 1903 and 1914, in his conclusion Miller carries the story of the Serbian community of Croatia to their forced exile from Croatia in 1995.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Croatian background; title: Serbs as political actors, 1867-1903; title: The birth and short life of the new course, 1903-1907; title: Interlude, persecution and temptation, 1907-1909; title: The collapse of the civic option in Serbian politics, 1910-1914; title: Conclusion, the failure of the civic idea among Croatia's Serbs.