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From the Highlands to Hollywood
This volume is dedicated to the academic achievements of Karl Kaser and to the 50th anniversary of Southeast European History and Anthropology (SEEHA) at the University of Graz. Its editors are collaborators of SEEHA and experts in various fields of Southeast European Studies: Siegfried Gruber, Dominik Gutmeyr, Sabine Jesner, Elife Krasniqi, Robert Pichler, and Christian Promitzer. The Festschrift covers diverse approaches toward the study of societies and cultures in Southeastern Europe, both with respect to history and current affairs, and brings together contributions from several of Kaser's former doctoral students, colleagues, collaborators and friends from across Europe.
Otranto 1480
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han’ın Kızılelma’ya giden yolda fethedilmesi emrini verdiği Otranto’nun, Gedik Ahmed Paşa komutasındaki Türkler tarafından ele geçirilmesi, Avrupa’nın en ücra köşelerinde bile büyük bir şaşkınlık ve heyecana sebep olur. Kızıl Atın Süvarisi, Balkan Şahini, Argos Kalesi ve Şar Dağı’nın Kurtları romanlarıyla, Balkanlarda at koşturan ve Osmanlı askerî gücünün en önemli unsurlarından olan akıncı beylerinin mücadelelerini bize anlatan Hasan Erdem, Otranto 1480 Mahşerin Son Atlısı romanında da, kanlarının son damlasına kadar “devlet-i ebed müddet” için çarpışan korkusuz Türk akıncılarının, Otranto’ya yard...
Paramilitarism in the Balkans
Paramilitarism in the Balkans is a systematic and thorough analysis of the phenomenon of paramilitary violence in the Balkans during the 'Greater War'. By analysing archival and primary source material from across the region, the phenomenon of irregular violence is traced back to its roots in the Ottoman Balkans.
The Longue Durée of Paramilitarism
As turbulent events - including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest - unfold around the globe, the actions of various types of paramilitary organization have attracted considerable attention in academic circles, as well as among the public. This volume brings together a wide range of respected authors from a variety of academic backgrounds, building on a rapidly developing literature on paramilitarism, with a focus on the Balkans, East-Central Europe, and the Caucasus. It represents the outcome of a major research project undertaken by the Balkan History Association. Chapters cover historical examples and various aspects of paramilitarism, including relationships with the state, legal contexts, conduct towards civilian populations, governance, recruitment, links to organized crime or terrorism, violence, and memory and legacy. Overall, this book aims to reassess the existing body of knowledge, and to offer a new theoretical conceptualization of paramilitarism spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Lviv’s Uncertain Destination
This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city's main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city's built environment and a microcosm of society.
Paramilitarism
From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts. Ungor presents a comparative and global overview of paramilitarism, showing how states use it to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians.
War in the Balkans
The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare. Focusing on the centuries opening decades, War in the Balkans seeks to shed new light on the Balkan Wars through approaching each regional and ethnic conflict as a separate actor, before placing them in a wider context. Although top-down 'Great Powers' historiography is often used to describe the beginnings of the World War I, not enough attention has been paid to the events in the region in the years preceding the Archduke Ferdinand's assassination. The Balkan Wars saw the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the end of the Bulgarian Kingdom (then one of the most powerful military countries in the region), an unprecedented hardening of Serbian nationalism, the swallowing up of Slovenes, Croats and Slovaks in a larger Balkan entity, and thus set in place the pattern of border realignments which would become familiar for much of the twentieth century.
Imagining Creation
Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.
