The Balkans Since 1453

This work aims to synthesize literature on Balkan topics since World War I, and demonstrate the importance of Balkan history by examining it in the context of European and world history. It uses imperial and local approaches, providing national histories as well as contextualising the subject.

ISBN 1850655510   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781850655510 (What's this?)   Pages 968 Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1319 Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780030096853 Publication date 22 Mar 2000   Height (mm) 230 Writer of introduction Traian Stoianovich (Professor of History, Rutgers University, USA)   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 949.6

		Author's Preface (1958)
		A Dialogic Introduction by Traian Stoianovich
		Note on Spelling and Place Names
Pt. I		Introduction
1		The Land and the People		1
2		Historical Background		15
Pt. II		Age of Ottoman Ascendancy: to 1566
3		Coming of the Ottoman Turks: to 1402		33
4		Conquest of the Balkans: 1403-1481		50
5		Ottoman Empire a Its Height: 1481-1566		68
6		Ottoman Institutions		81
7		Balkan Peninsula under Ottoman Rule		96
Pt. II		Age of Ottoman Decline: 1566-1815
8		Decline of the Ottoman Empire		117
9		Balkan Peninsula during Ottoman Decline		137
10		Defeat by Austria: Recession to the Danube: 1566-1699		154
11		Defeat by Russia: Recession to the Dniester: 1699-1792		178
12		The Balkans, the French Revolution, and Napoleon: 1792-1815		198
Pt. IV		Age of Nationalism: 1815-1878
13		Dynamics of Balkan Politics: 1815-1878		215
14		The Serbian Revolution and the South Slavs to 1878		230
15		Greek Revolution and Independent Statehood to 1878		269
16		Ottoman Reform and Near Eastern Crises: 1831-1852		300
17		Crimean War: 1853-1856		319
18		Making of Rumania to 1878		339
19		Bulgarian Awakening to 1878		364
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'It is a pleasure to see the reissue of L.S. Stavrianos' The Balkans Since 1453. This monumental book, first published in 1958, has served as an eminently useful corrective against all sorts of imbalance and partiality, that have hindered the study of the subject, [and entirely deserves the praise lavished on it over the past 40 years]. It remains to this day a towering achievement, and a masterly work of synthesis. Its reappearance in the bookshops was long overdue, and the publisher deserves credit not least for offering a nicely produced paperback edition. [A...] Stavrianos has woven a rich and colourful tapestry made of many different threads, and gives full weight to the internal and external forces that shaped the history of the Balkans over 500 years.' -Dimitris Livanios, Anglo-Hellenic Review

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