Research Catalog

Title

Myths and boundaries in south-eastern Europe / Pål Kolstø, editor.

Publication

London : Hurst & Co., ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kolstø, Pål.

Description

xi, 357 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 22 cm

Subjects

• Geschichte
• History
• Balkanhalbinsel
• National identity
• Borders
• Eastern Europe
• Balkans
• Mythevorming
• Grenzen
• Etnisch bewustzijn
• Nationalismus
• Mythologie
• Boundaries
• 15.70 history of Europe
• Nationalism > Balkan Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula > History > Errors, inventions, etc
• Balkan Peninsula > Boundaries
• Nationalism and historiography > Balkan Peninsula
• Mythology > Political aspects > Balkan Peninsula

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Assessing the role of historical myths in modern society / Pål Kolstø -- The symbolic identity of Croatia in the triangle crossroads-bulwark-bridge / Ivo Žanić -- The boundary on the Drina: the meaning and development of the mythologem / Ivo Goldstein -- Bosnian historical reality and its reflection in myth / Srečko M. Džaja -- The sanctification of enmity: churches and the construction of founding myths of Serbia and Croatia / Vjekoslav Perica -- Adamant and treacherous: Serbian historians on religious conversions / Bojan Aleksov -- The evolution of boundary: defining historical myths in Serbian academic and public opinion in the 1990s / Ana Antić -- Between destiny and contingency: variations on historical narratives in the arts during the break-up of Yugoslavia / Zoran Terzić -- Ancient nationhood and the struggle for statehood: historiographic myths in the Republic of Macedonia / Ulf Brunnbauer -- Historical myths: the Bulgarian case of pride and prejudice / Albena Hranova.

ISBN

• 185065767X
• 9781850657675
• 1850657726
• 9781850657729

OCLC

• ocm62314611
• 62314611
• SCSB-14585446

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library