Balkan Connections

12/05/2012

"Ottomans into Europeans: State and Institution-building in South Eastern Europe" - first person to read it should write a review! V

Presents a history of the political institutions of the Balkans: bureaucracies, judiciaries, democratic elections, free media, local and central government - and their frequently strained relations with traditional institutions. This title also examines the selection, evolution, and performance ...

16/04/2012

understanding communism and its aftermath

The Institute for Studies of the Recent Past is a none-governmental research organization founded in 2005. The institute encourages and supports research of modern Bulgarian history.

04/04/2012

For two years, Barbara Demick chronicled the trials of one Sarajevo street during the Serbian siege. In her latest book, Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street, she catches up with the people she befriended

23/03/2012

http://sam.gov.tr/a-forward-looking-vision-for-the-balkans/

The Balkan region is at a historical juncture, as the SEECP (South East European Cooperation Process) is soon to celebrate its 15th anniversary. It is high time for regional countries to reflect on the past fifteen years and reassess the potential role this process could play in the future of the re...

20/03/2012

(Katherine Verdery)

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses -- the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk -- have taken on a political life ...

14/03/2012

Studia ethnologica Croatica is one of those Open Access journals I’ve found recently. Their latest issue gives an overview over recent delevopments in anthropology in Eastern Europe. The texts are based on presentations made at the conference ‘New Curricula in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology – M...

11/03/2012

insightful both on nationalism and politics

CEU Press titles will be on display at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, 31 March - 2 April, 2012 in Cambridge, UK and also at the 53rd International Studies Association Convention in San Diego, April 1-4, 2012

04/03/2012

Top of CEU Press sales list 2011: 1. Media, Nationalism and European Identities 2. Masterpieces of History 3. Nation, Language, Islam 4. Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern E...

02/03/2012

Integrates gender into the broader narrative of the world wars in eastern Europe

02/03/2012

Publisher's catalog page for a scholarly book

02/03/2012

Mary Neuburger (History) Professor Neuburger's focus is on modern eastern Europe with a specialization in southeastern Europe. Her research interests include urban culture, consumption, commodity exchange, gender and nationalism.

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10/02/2012

a secotion in it describes the exprience of Bulgarian Macedonians

1996 Peopling Indiana-history of the Bulgarian/macedonian emigration in Indiana. by bdragomir in Books - Non-fiction, people, and Bulgaria

09/02/2012

Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journalists, political analysts, diplomats, human rights organization, the United Nations, and other government and intergovernmental organizations. Profession...

07/02/2012

"Sounds of the Borderland" is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies literature on music, politics, and...

24/11/2011

La r***e Balkanologie a été fondée en 1997 par Patrick Michels et Yves Tomic. Elle est éditée par l'Association française d'études sur les Balkans. Il s'agit d'une r***e d'études en sciences humaines et sociales sur les Balkans couvrant la période du Moyen-âge à nos jours. Son orientation est plurid...