Yugoslavia and its historians: understanding the Balkan wars of the 1990s

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Part I Images of the Past 1. Clio amid the Ruins: Yugoslavia and Its Predecessors in Recent Historiography 3 DUSAN J. DJORDJEVICH 2. Proud Name of Hajduks: Bandits as Ambiguous Heroes in Balkan Politics and Culture 22 WENDY BRACEWELL 3. The Rise and Fall of Morlacchismo: South Slavic Identity in the Mountains of Dalmatia 37 LARRY WOLFF 4. An Island of Peace in a Turbulent World: Old Ragusans' Statesmanship as a Paradigm for the Modern Balkans 53 BARISA KREKIC 5. Transhumance 66 WAYNE S. VUCINICH Part II Yugoslavia and After? 6. South Slav Education: Was There Yugoslavism? 93 CHARLES JELAVICH 7. Yugoslavism versus Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene Nationalism: Political, Ideological, and Cultural Causes of the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia 1 6 ARNOLD SUPPAN 8. The Macedonian Question and Instability in the Balkans 140 ANDREW ROSSOS 9. A Crisis of Identity: Serbia at the End of the Century i6o THOMAS A. EMMERT 10. Heretical Thoughts about the Postcommunist Transition in the Once and Future Yugoslavia 179 JOHN V. A. FINE 11. Solving the Wars of Yugoslav Succession 193 GALE STOKES Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Yugoslavia History, Yugoslavia Historiography, Balkan Peninsula Politics and government 20th century, Nationalism Balkan Peninsula