Contested Frontiers in the Balkans

Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of fluid frontiers. In Contested Frontiers in the Balkans Irina Marin follows the history of the Banat of Temesvar, a province situated on the edges of these competing empires and currently divided among Romania, Serbia and Hungary. The history of the Banat is, on a small scale, the history of Central and Eastern Europe as a whole - with its overlapping imperial rules, redrawing of boundaries, composite identities, Procrustean nation-states straddling multi-ethnic regions, the legacy of Communism and its vagaries, and the resuscitation of regionalism within the framework of the European Union. It is also the place where the Romanian Revolution of 1989 started which brought Ceau escu's Communist dictatorship to an end. The first history of its kind, this is an important study of Serbian and Romanian ethnicity, culture and influence explored through archival documents and a transnational historical approach, and provides new insights into the major empires of history and their relationship with the Balkan lands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-10-26
Mått138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt439 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780761053

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Acknowledgements viiiNote on the Use of Place Names ixIndex of Maps x1. Introduction 12. Medieval Bans and Banates 43. Under the Sign of the Crescent 84. Habsburg Borderland 215. Orthodox Peoples 396. The Privileged and the Tolerated 547. Through the Looking Glass of Revolution 678. Citizenship and Constitutionalism 1867–1918 849. Parting of Ways 10110. The Banat in Yugoslavia 11011. The Banat in Romania 12512. The Communist Experience 14013. Exit from Communism: the Rise of Milosevi?and the Fall of Ceau?escu 15614. War and Democracy: the Banat after 1989 17215. Conclusions 183Notes 189Bibliography 210Index 220

'Few works analyse more clearly the multi-layered, multi-ethnic history of Central Europe than this penetrating study of the Banat. Not only does it offer a transnational history of this province, with a focus on the impact and legacy of successive types of imperial rule on a multi-ethnic borderland, but it proposes a different way of looking at the history of the region as a synthesis of converfing political and social influences, going beyond the narrow framework of national histories. Based on an impressive familiarity with a wide range of sources, Irina Marin's book represents a significant intellectual achievement.' Dennis Deletant, Visiting Ion Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.