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The Balkans
A definitive guide to this turbulent and complicated region traces the Balkans across fifteen centuries, centering around the three great civilizations of the region--Western European, Orthodox Christian, and Muslim, and detailing the political, social, cultural and religious facets of Balkan history.
Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe
The return of Eastern and Central Europe to true independence, following the collapse of Communist rule, has retained an enormous number of historical and cultural issues largely dominant since the disaster of World War II. Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe analyzes five of the most important of these issues: the legacy of the Habsburg Empire, the 'cultural faultline' of Bosnia-Hercegovina, the much disputed religion of Macedonia, the tensions between Hungary and Romania over Transylvania, and Poland's unstable Eastern borders. In his previous book, Culture and History in Eastern Europe, Dennis Hupchick created a lucid conceptual framework for understanding developments in Eastern Europe. Here he applies these insights to case-studies that greatly enhance our understanding of this fascinating, highly unstable part of the world.
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The Balkans
The tragedies of Bosnia and Kosovo are often explained away as the unchangeable legacy of 'centuries-old hatreds'. In this richly detailed, expertly balanced chronicle of the Balkans across fifteen centuries, Hupchick sets a complicated record straight. Organized around the three great civilizations of the region - Western European, Orthodox Christian and Muslim - this is a much-needed guide to the political, social, cultural and religious threads of Balkan history, with a clear, convincing account of the reasons for nationalist violence and terror.
The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony
This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those conflicts evolved from simple confrontations for territorial possession into a life-or-death struggle for imperial precedence within the Orthodox world then emerging in Eastern Europe—a struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. A prelude chapter sets the stage for the hegemonic conflict, which was divided into three distinct phases by interludes of relative peace between the contending parties, during which Bulgaria’s domestic, foreign, and cultural developments shaped the nature and conduct of the fighting in each successive phase.
Culture and History in Eastern Europe
Culture and history in Eastern Europe provides a refreshingly different approach toward understanding recent and current events in one of the world's most complex and fascinating regions. Dr. Hupchick presents substantive arguments for the importance of culture in its most essential form - a particular group of people's basic perception of reality - as the continuous driving force underlying human actions. It is the interplay among various cultures over time that form the determining factors that shape human development. With great clarity and precision, Dr. Hupchick describes the cultural complexities of Eastern Europe and Russia, giving the reader many insights into how the region's inhabitants themselves perceive their rich yet terrible histories. This is a book which will be as stimulating to specialists as it will be enlightening to students.
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe is a lucid and authoritative guide to a full understanding of the complicated history of Eastern Europe. Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps which are each accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text to provide a useful aid in physical geography and in an area's political development over time. The maps illustrate key moments in East European history from the Middle Ages to the present, in a way that is immediate and comprehensible. Lecturers and students will find it to be an indispensable and affordable classroom and reference tool, and general readers will enjoy it for its clarity and wealth of information.
Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe
The return of Eastern and Central Europe to true independence, following the collapse of communist rule, has re-animated an enormous number of historical and cultural issues largely dormant since World War II. This book analyzes five of the most important of these issues: the legacy of the Habsburg Empire; the cultural-faultline of Bosnia-Hercegovina; the much-disputed region of Macedonia; the tensions between Hungary and Romania over Transylvania; and Poland's unstable eastern borders.
The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century
Through Bulgarian and Ottoman documents, marginalia, travelers' accounts, art, and numerous secondary documents, the seventeenth century--considered by historians as the nadir of Bulgarian national history--is examined as to the question of the Slavic society's continued existence despite centuries of foreign political, social and spiritual domination by the Ottoman Empire. The first part outlines the consequences for Bulgarian history of the Muslim Ottoman conquest. The second details the nature of the culture and the forms of expression. The third part consists of an overview of documented seventeenth century Bulgarian Orthodox expression.
A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe
Spanning the years from the late-3rd Century to 1991, Hupchick and Cox have created a concise, practical atlas to help students see the historical and political movements that changed the face of Eastern Europe. In forty-nine, two-colour maps and concise accompanying text, Hupchick and Cox chart the evolution of the present state of eastern Europe from the division of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall. With oversized pages with two-column text facing the maps they explain, A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe in paperback is the perfect classroom reference work to engage students in the history of Eastern Europe. In hardcover, A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe is a reference work that no library can be without.
