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HIST 4605

The Balkans in Transition – 1918 to 1989

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

The seminar uses the concept of transition to understand the Balkan encounter with modernity and Europe. Key periods to be examined include the interwar era and the period of communist rule, with an emphasis on political, social and economic themes.

Topics

Course catalogue

2024

Readings

  • Todorova, Maria. “The Balkans: From Discovery to Invention.” Slavic Review 53:2 (1994): pp.453-482. https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/1ortgfo/cdi_proquest_journals_1297065582
  • Mishkova, Diana. “The Balkans as an Idée—Force: Scholarly Projections of the Balkan Cultural Area.” Civilisations 60, no. 2 (2012): 39–64. https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3006
  • Djurdjevic, Maria. “The Balkans: Past and Present of Cultural Pluralism. European Institute of the Mediterranean. https://www.iemed.org/publication/the-balkans-past-and-present-of-cultural-pluralism/
  • Stojanovic, Dubravka. “Yugoslav Wars – A Snapshot of European Past or Future?” Journal of Modern European History 16, no. 2 (2018): 153–57. https://doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944-2018-2-153
  • Njaradi, Dunja. “The Balkan Studies: History, Post-Colonialism and Critical Regionalism.” Debatte (Oxford, England) 20, no. 2–3 (2012): 185–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/0965156X.2013.765252
  • Magocsi, Paul Robert. Historical Atlas of Central Europe : Third Revised and Expanded Edition. Third revised and Expanded edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  • Jelavich, Barbara. History of the Balkans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Chapters 1, 2 and 3. https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/1ortgfo/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC4640711
  • Jelavich, Barbara. History of the Balkans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Chapters 5 and 6. https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/1ortgfo/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC4640711
  • Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. The Balkans in World History. 1st ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. Chapter 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195158496.001.0001

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as EURR 4101 . Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing and one of PSCI 3208 , PSCI 3209 ; or permission of the Department. Seminar three hours a week.

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