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  The Balkans (Paperback) By (author) Mark Mazower

  

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  Short Description for The BalkansA dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics.
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  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Published: 20 June 2002
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • ISBN 13: 9781842125441 ISBN 10: 1842125443
  • Sales rank: 57,171

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• At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the 'Rumeli' that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands they had conquered from Byzantium, together with their Christian inhabitants. In this original account of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped its inhabitants' lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia it has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Mazower's narrative ranges broadly both in time and in space, treating the former Turkish domains in Europe as part of a common if complex historical inheritance.