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Balkan ghosts : a journey through history / Robert D. Kaplan.
Author
Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-
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Language
English
Εdition
1st Picador ed.
Published/Created
New York : Picador : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005.
Description
lv, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
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Balkan Peninsula
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Description and travel
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Balkan Peninsula
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History
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Kaplan, Robert D. 1952-
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Travel
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Summary note
"This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power."--Jacket.
Notes
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
Contents
Prologue : saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water
pt. 1. Yugoslavia : historical overtures
1. Croatia : "just so they could go to heaven"
2. Old Serbia and Albania : Balkan "West Bank"
3. Macedonia : "a hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars"
4. The white city and its prophet
pt. 2. Romania : Latin passion play
5. Athenee Palace, Bucharest
6. The Danube's bitter end
7. Moldavia : "conditioned to hate"
8. The land beyond Dracula's castle : the painted monasteries of Bucovina
9. Transylvanian voices
10. Transylvanian tale : the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin
11. Last glimpses : Timisoara and Bucharest
pt. 3. Bulgaria : tales from communist Byzantium
12. "The warmth of each other's bodies"
13. The price of friendship
14. The bad and the good
pt. 4. Greece : western mistress, eastern bride
15. Farewell to Salonika
16. "Teach me, Zorba : teach me to dance!"
17. The secret history
Epilogue : the road to Adrianople.
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ISBN
0312424930 ((pbk.))
9780312424930 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2005276414
OCLC
59283001
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