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Balkan Holocausts? by David Bruce MacDonald (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN-100719064678
ISBN-139780719064678
eBay Product ID (ePID)2319426
Product Key Features
Book TitleBalkan Holocausts?
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicEurope / Eastern, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Propaganda, Europe / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorDavid Bruce Macdonald
Book SeriesNew Approaches to Conflict Analysis Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-043173
Reviews"[T]he author has succeeded in exploring his subject in a way which is both lively and genuinely informative. ... extremely well written, based on a wide range of relevant sources and sensible and generally persuasive in its judgements ... His discussion of the debate about the Holocaust is sophisticated and based on a thorough knowledge of the relevant debates." -- James Mayall, Cambridge University
Table Of ContentWhat Is the Nation?: Towards a Teleological Model of Nationalism * Instrumentalising the Holocaust: From Universalisation to Relativism * Slobodan Milosevic and the Construction of Serbophobia * Croatia, 'Greater Serbianism', and the Conflict Between East and West * Masking the Past: World War II and the Balkan Historikerstreit * Comparing Genocides: 'Numbers Games' and 'Holocausts' At Jasenovac and Bleiburg * Whither Tito?: Communism, Post-Communism, and the War in Croatia * 'Greater Serbia' and 'Greater Croatia': the Moslem Question in Bosnia-Hercegovina * Conclusions: Confronting Relativism in Serbia and Croatia
Synopsis"Balkan Holocausts?" compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centered writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis., Comparing and contrasting propaganda in Serbia and Croatia from 1986 to 1999, this book analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of Holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called Holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. There is a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the Internet, detailing how and why the Internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina, and a theme-by-theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals., Balkan Holocausts? compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events.
LC Classification NumberDR2032.5.M33 2002
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