Synopses & Reviews
Beyond the Balkans offers new perspectives on Southeast European history, envisaging the region's history as an integral part of European and global history. Debates about the mental map of "the Balkans" as the negative alter ego of "the West" and about the construction of the Balkans as a historical space sui generis provide points of departure. The book's essays treat an exemplary, yet broad, set of topics designed to open up idle fields of research. They foster common and coherent methodological lines and establish a new agenda for future research. (Series: Studies on South East Europe - Vol. 10)
Synopsis
This book shows how current and future research on the social history of the Balkans can be integrated into a broader European framework. The contributions look at a range of methodological and empirical issues, and the theme that links the various studies is that of the contrasting, yet, at the same time, entangled ideas of the Balkans as a "mental map" and of Southeast Europe as an "historical region." (Series: Studies on South East Europe - Vol. 10)