As violence and turmoil continue to define the former Yugoslavia, basic questions remain unanswered: What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, this genocidal activity? Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389. Anzulovic shows how the myth of "Heavenly Serbia" developed to help the Serbs endure ...
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As violence and turmoil continue to define the former Yugoslavia, basic questions remain unanswered: What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, this genocidal activity? Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389. Anzulovic shows how the myth of "Heavenly Serbia" developed to help the Serbs endure foreign domination, explaining their military defeat and the loss of their medieval state by emphasizing their own moral superiority over military victory. Heavenly Serbia shows how this myth resulted in an aggressive nationalist ideology which has triumphed in the late twentieth century and marginalized those Serbs who strive for the establishment of a civil society. "Modern Serbian nationalism...and its contradictory connections...have been sources of considerable scholarly interest...Branimir Anzulovic's compendium is a good example of the genre, made all the more useful by Anzulovic's excellent command of the literature." --Ivo Banac, History of Religions Author interview with CNN: ...
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. The author searches for the cause behind the brutal and futile drive for a Greater Serbia when they brought war, death and destruction in the 1990s to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. He traces their drive to Serbian national mythology of "Heavenly Serbia", the dominant myth, that first appeared in 1389 after the Battle of Kosovo. They had a feeling of superiority over their neighbors, a 'sense of destiny" to be the dominant power. 233 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 1999, New York University Press, New York and London.
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New in new dust jacket. BRAND NEW. Excellent condition. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Pompliments card signed by Christopher DeMuth, President of the American Enterprise Institute laid in. xiv, 233 p. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. In the 1990s Serbs brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosdova, and international condemnation and economic ruin on themselves. This book searches for the causes behind the brutal and futile drive for a Greater Serbia. How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, their genecidal activity? This book traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology.
