Book Reviews
Balkan Academic News regularly publishes book reviews of recent scholarship on the region. The reviews are listed here in alphabetical order of the author:
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A Antohi, Sorin and Vladimir Tismaneanu (Eds.), Between Past and Future The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath. Budapest Central European University Press, 2000. 414pp., USD 28.95, GBP 17.95 (paperback), ISBN 963-9116-71-8.
Anzulovic,Branimir,
Heavenly Serbia, From Myth to Genocide. London: Hurst & Company, 1999. 233
pp., GBP 14.95, ISBN 1-85065 530 8
Reviewed by Reviewed by Olivera Jokic (University of Texas at Arlington), April 2000.
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Bal,
Idris, Turkeys Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics: The Rise and the
Fall of the Turkish Model (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), 232pp. (hardcover), ISBN
0754614085
Reviewed by Anna Leander (Copenhagen Peace Research Institute), September 2001.
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Bornträger,
Ekkehard W., Borders, Ethnicity and National Self-Determination, Ethnos 52. Vienna:
Braumüller, 1999. 110 pp., DM 35 (ATS 256, SFR 33), ISBN 3-7003-1241-5
Reviewed by Rainer Ohliger (Humoldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sozialwissenschaften), June
2000
Bozbora,Nuray,
Osmanli Yönetiminde Arnavutluk: Arnavut Ulusçulugu'nun Gelis[h]imi. Istanbul: Boyut
Kitaplari, 1997. pp. 303 with
bibliography; 6 maps and 2 photos, ISBN: 975-521-053-7 language: Turkish.
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (NYU), May 2000.
Brabant, Jozef
M. van (ed), Remaking Europe The European Union and the Transition Economies. Lanham,
Boulder, New York, Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. 269+xix pp.,
ISBN 0-8476-9323-6.
Reviewed by David Phinnemore (The Queen's University of Belfast), August 2000.
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Braun,
Aurel and Zoltan Barany (eds.). Dilemmas of Transition. The Hungarian Experience.
Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. 350pp. 35
USD, (paperback), ISBN 0-8476-9005-9.
Reviewed by Zoltan Adam (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary), March 2001.
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Campbell, Greg, The Road to Kosovo A Balkan
Diary. Boulder, Co.
& Oxford, UK Westview Press 2000. 278 pp., 15 USD, ISBN 0-8133-3767-4 (paperback).
Reviewed by Leon Malazogu (Project on Ethnic Relations and University of Prishtina,
Political Science Department, Prishtina), October 2001.
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Chandler,David,
Bosnia. Faking Democracy after Dayton. London-Sterling, VA.:Pluto Press, 1999. 268
pp., £ 14.99 (paperback), GBP 45.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0745316891
Reviewed by Florian Bieber (CEU), July 1999.
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Clark,
Howard, Civil Resistance in Kosovo. London: Pluto Press, 2000. xx + 266 pp.
Notes and index. 19.95 USD, ISBN 0 7453 1569 0 (paper).
Reviewed by Besnik Pula (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.), October 2001.
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Clark,
Victoria, Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe From Byzantium to Kosovo.
London: Macmillan, 2000. xviii + 460 Price 18.99 (GBP) (Hardcover) ISBN 0333 75185 X.
Reviewed by Tom Gallagher (Bradford University), August 2000.
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Collin, Matthew, This is Serbia
calling: Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Belgrade's Underground Resistance. (London: Serpent's
Tail Press, 2001; 245 pp., 9.99 GBP, 15.00 USD, ISBN: 1852426829.
Reviewed by Eric Gordy (Department of Sociology, Clark University), September 2001
Conversi,Daniele,
German-Bashing and the Breakup of Yugoslavia Donald W. Treadgold Paper 16, 1998. 81
pp. USD 6.45
Reviewed by Florian Bieber (CEU), June 1999
Cowan,
Jane K., ed., Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference (Anthropology,
Culture and Society Series). London: Pluto Press, 2000, 166 pp., 19.95 USB, ISBN:
0745315895 (paperback).
Reviewed by Zhidas Daskalovski (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University
College London), March 2001.
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Deletant,
Dennis, Communist Terror in Romania. Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State 1948-1965.
London: Hurst & Company, 1999. 351 pp
+ xii; Appendices; Bibliography; Index, GBP 45.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 1-85065-386-0
Reviewed by Mark Pittaway (Department of History, The Open University, UK), May 2000.
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Doubt, Keith, Sociology After
Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 200
pp. $60.00
0-8476-9376-7 (Cloth), 24.95 USD 0-8476-9377-5 (Paper).
Reviewed by Nicola Nixon (Department of History and The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory,
Melbourne University, Australia), February 2001.
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Duijzings, Ger,
Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. London: Hurst & Company, 2000.
238pp., 2 maps, 14 black and white photos. 16.50 GBP. ISBN 1 85065 431X (paperback).
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (New York University), January 2001.
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Elsie, Robert, A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and
Folk Culture.London Hurst & Company (published in the USA by NYU Press), 2001. 357
pp., 45.00 GBP, ISBN 1-85065-570-7 (Hardcover).
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (New York University), October 2001.
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Fatic,
Aleksandar, Reconciliation via the War Crimes Tribunal? Aldershot: Ashgate, January
2000. 128 pp. , GBP 35.00, ISBN 1 84014 487 4
Reviewed by Jos De la Haye (University of Leuven, Belgium), February 2000.
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Fleming,
Katherine. E., The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pahsa's Greece.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. 206 pp. including index with six
pictures. 45 USD (Cloth), 19.95 USD (Paperback), ISBN 0-691-00195-4 (Cloth) -2
(Paper).
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (New York University), November 2000.
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Fowkes,
Ben, The Post-Communist Era: Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe,
London: Macmillan Press, 1999, 236 pp., 65 USD, ISBN 0312223684 (hardcover).
Reviewed by Dora Piroska (Central European University, Budapest), November 2001.
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Giurescu,
Dinu, Romania in the Second World War (1939-1945), Boulder, Co. and New York:
East European Monographs and Columbia University Press, 2000. 360 pp., 48.50 USD
(Cloth), ISBN 0880334436.
Reviewed by Daniel M. Pennell (Indiana University), March 2001
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Goff, Peter ed. The
Kosovo News and Propaganda War.
Vienna: International Press Institute, 1999. 584 pp. USD 30 (paperback).
Reviewed by Snjezana Bokulic (Southeast European Studies, Central European University,
Budapest), May 2000.
Gordy,
Eric, The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives.
University Park, PA.: Penn State University
Press, 1999. 230 pp. 17.95 USD. ISBN 0-271-01958-1 (paperback).
Reviewed by Emil Kerenji (University of Michigan), January 2001.
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Gundara, Jagdish; Sidney Jacobs
(eds.), 2000, Intercultural Europe: Diversity and Social Policy. Aldershot: Ashgate.
390 pp., 42.50 GBP, ISBN 1-85742-346-1 (Hardcover).
Reviewed by Annie Lafontaine (Anthropology, University of Montreal), February 2001.
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Hawkesworth,
Celia, Voices in the Shadows - Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia. Budapest:
CEU Press, 2000. 280 pp., 49.95 $
ISBN 963-9116-62-9 (hardback)
Review by Natassja Smiljanic (University of Central England, UK), August 2000.
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Higley,
John and György Lengyel (Eds). Elites after State Socialism Theories and Analysis.
Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. 252pp.
24.95 USD, ISBN 0-8476-9897-1 (paperback).
Reviewed by Irina Gigova (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), March 2001.
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Jaram,
Vlado (ed.), Povijest Hrvata A History of the Croats (CD Rom). Zagreb:Centar za
transfer tehnologije, 1999. Price US$ 25.
Reviewed by Maja Mikula (Institute for International Studies, University of Technology
Sydney), September 2001
Jokic,
Aleksandar (ed.), War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing: A Reader.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. xiii + 313 pp. Notes and index. 15.99
GBP, ISBN 0-631-22505-6 (paper).
Reviewed by Eric Gordy (Department of Sociology, Clark University), October
2001.
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Kassimeris,
George
, Europe’s Last Red Terrorists The Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
C. Hurst & Co.: London, 2001. 262pp., 14.95GBP, ISBN 1 85065 467 0
(paperback).
Reviewed by Sappho Xenakis (Oxford University), October 2001.
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Knezevic,
Djurdja,
Koraljka Dilic, and Ann Daub, eds., Women and Politics: Feminisms with an Eastern
Touch/Zene i Politika: Faminizmi na istocni nacin. Documentation of a Seminar,
Dubrovnik, 17-21 May 2000. Zenska Infoteka, 2000.
Reviewed by Olivera Jokic (University of Michigan), October 2001.
Kontra, Miklos,
Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Tibor Varady (Eds.), Language: A Right and a
Resource. Budapest: Central
European University Press, 1999. 346pp., 14.95 GBP (paperback), 31.95 GBP (Cloth), ISBN
963-9116-64-5 (paperback), ISBN
963-9116-63-7 (cloth) Reviewed by Zhidas Daskalovski (St.Antonys College, Oxford),
August 2000.
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Lazic, Mladen
(Ed.), Protest in Belgrade, Winter of Discontent. Budapest: CEU Press, 1999. vii + 236
pp. Tables, figures, photograph, appendix. 49.95 USD (Cloth), 22.95 (Paperback), ISBN
963-9116-45-9 (First published in Serbian as 'Ajmo,'Ajde, svi u setnju, Belgrade:
Medija centar & ISI FF, 1997).
Reviewed by Lazar Nikolic (University of Belgrade), September 2000.
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Lutem,
Omer E., and Birgul Demirtas Coskun (eds.) Balkan Diplomasisi. Ankara: ASAM,
2001. 311 pp., ISBN 975-6769-16-5 (paperback).
Reviewed by Bestami S. Bilgic (The George Washington University, Washington, DC),
November 2001.
Mahmutcehajic, Rusmir, Prozori: Rijeci i slike. Sarajevo: DID; Zagreb: Durieux, 2000.
171pp. ISBN 9958-511-09-6 (DID), ISBN 953-188-126-X (Durieux), 14.95 USD. English Version:
"Windows: Words and Images" translation: Francis R. Jones and Milena Maric
(forthcoming).
Reviewed by Edin Hajdarpasic (University of Michigan), October 2001.
McBride,
William L., Philosophical Reflections On The Changes In Eastern Europe.
Lanham. Boulder. New York, Oxford. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. vii +
139 pp. 18.95 USD, ISBN 0-8476-8798-8 (paperback).
Reviewed by David H. Fisher (Philosophy Department, North Central College,
Naperville, IL), November 2001.
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Milosevic,
Milan, Die Parteienlandschaft Serbiens. [The Serbian Party Landscape]. Berlin: Berlin
Verlag Arno Spitz, 2000. 109 pp. Index, Bibliography. DM 24 (ATS 175, SFR 22) (Softcover),
ISBN 3-8305-0059-9.
Reviewed by Florian Bieber (University of Vienna), November 2000.
Pamuk,
Sevket, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire. London: Cambridge University Press,
2000. 276 pages + index + 45 illustration
+ 24 graphs and tables, 40 GBP, 69.95 USD, ISBN 0 521 44197 8 (hardback).
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (New York University), January 2001.
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Radan, Peter
and Aleksandar Pavkovic (eds.), The Serbs and their Leaders in the Twentieth Century,
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997. GBP 41.50. ISBN 1-85521-891-7
Reviewed by Florian Bieber (CEU), December 1999.
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Reed,
Fred A., Salonica Terminus. Travels into the Balkan Nightmare. Burnaby, BC:
Talonbooks, 1996. XVI+270 pp. 16.95 USD, ISBN: 0889223688 (paper).
Reviewed by Ferenc Csortan (Romanian Ministry of Culture and Religions,
Bucharest), November 2001.
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Reid,
Susan and David Crowley, Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War
Eastern Europe. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000. 213 pp., ISBN 1-85973-239-9
(paperback)
Reviewed by Irina Gigova (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), September 2001.
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Riegler,
Henriette, Einmal Dayton und Zurück: Perspektiven einer Nachkriegsordnung im ehemaligen
Jugoslawien, Wien: Braumüller, 1999
(Laxenburger Internationale Studien 13). DM 39 (ATS 287, SFR 37), ISBN 3-7003-1255-5
Reviewed by Tobias K. Vogel (International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and
Citizenship, New York and Sarajevo), April 2000.
Roudometof,Victor
(ed.), The Macedonian Question. New York & Boulder, Co.: East European Monographs,
Distributed by Columbia
University Press, 2000. 301 pp. 42 USD, ISBN 0-88033-451-7 (cloth).
Reviewed by Zhidas Daskalovski (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University
College London), February 2001.
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Schoepflin, George: Nations, Identity,
Power: The New Politics of Europe. London: Hurst, 2000. vi + 442pp. GBP 16.50, ISBN
1-85065-410-7 (paperback).
Reviewed by Tobias K. Vogel (Research Associate, International Center for Migration,
Ethnicity and Citizenship, New York), January 2001.
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Sfikas,
Thanasis D. & Christopher Williams (eds.), Ethnicity and Nationalism in East Central
Europe and the Balkans. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. 432 pp., 50 GBP (hardcover), ISBN
185521 913 1 .
Reviewed by Florian Bieber (European Centre for Minority Issues, Sarajevo), May 2001
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Stephenson,
Paul, Byzantium's Balkan Frontier. A Political Study of the Northern Balkans,
900-1204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 352 pp. 69.95 USD. ISBN
0-521-77017-3.
Reviewed by Florin Curta (Department of History, University of Florida), December 2000.
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Suda, Zdenek
and Jiri Musil, The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West. Budapest CEU Press ,
2000. 280 pp., USD 49.95, GBP 31.95 (cloth), USD 22.95, GBP 13.95 (paperback), ISBN
963-9116-53-x, 963-9116-54-8
Reviewed by Zhidas Daskalovski (Oxford Universty & Central European University), June
2000.
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Thomas,
Robert, Serbia Under Milosevic. London: Hurst & Company, 1999. 443 pp. GBP 14.95,
ISBN 1-85065 367 4 (published in the USA as The Politics of Serbia in the 1990s by
Columbia University Press, New York).
Reviewed by Paul Roe (International Relations and European Studies, Central European
University, Budapest), May 2000.
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Todorov, Nikolai, Society, the
City and Industry in the Balkans, 15th-19th Centuries. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum,
1998. x + 302 pages with
index, 60 GBP. ISBN, 0-86078-659-5 (hardcover).
Reviewed by Isa Blumi (New York University), February 2001.
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Todorov, Tzvetan, (ed.), Voices
from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria. University Park, Pennsylvania:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999; 178 pp., 28.50 USD, ISBN 0271019611
(Cloth).
Reviewed by Dragos Petrescu (Central European University, History Department, Budapest,
Hungary), August 2001.
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Triantaphyllou,
Dimitrios, The Albanian Factor. Athens: ELIAMEP, 2000, 70 pp.
Reviewed by Tamás Berky (Budapest University of Economics), September 2001.
Turner,
Barry, Central Europe Profiled. Essential Facts on Society, Business and
Politics in Central Europe. London: Macmillan, 2000. 308 pp., 17.95 USD,
ISBN: 0312229941 (paperback).
Reviewed by Emilian Kavalski (University of Loughborough, UK), November 2001.
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Tütüncü,
Mehmet (ed), Turkish Jewish Studies. Studies on Turkish Jewish Relations Through the Ages.
Haarlem: Sota, 2001. 342 pp., with 12 plates, documents (facsimiles), index, bibliography,
ISBN 90-804409-4-9.
Reviewed by Efrat E. Abravaya (Bar Ilan University, Israel), July 2001
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