{"product_id":"yugoslavia-without-yugoslavs-the-history-of-a-national-idea-9781805390435","title":"Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs: The History of a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe term “Yugoslavia” first appeared in an article in the newspaper \u003cem\u003eSlovenija \u003c\/em\u003ein Ljubljana on Friday, October 19, 1849. The author of the article declared that he was not interested in politics, but only in the literary unification of Yugoslavs within the Austro-Hungary Empire. With ongoing conflicts and disparate forms of nationalism in and around historical Yugoslavia as its backdrop, \u003cem\u003eYugoslavia without Yugoslavs\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time addresses the history and idea of a united Yugoslavia in and during which a true “Yugoslav” identity never really came into being . Following a series of wars and uprisings from 1875 onwards, the first nation-state of Southern Slavs, established after World War I, became the “Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” — a competing nationalistic blender that would go through failure, revival and transformation of the concept of “Yugoslavia”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: The Naming and Origins of the Yugoslav Idea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tCelebrating a Glorious Past\u003cbr\u003e \tEmancipatory Power of Yugoslav Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e \tMobilisation for the Yugoslav Idea\u003cbr\u003e \tAustria-Hungary Thwarts the Yugoslav Idea\u003cbr\u003e \tA Volunteer in the Service of the World Revolution\u003cbr\u003e \tFrom Villain to National Hero\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. In Search of a Path to Yugoslav Unification\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tBalkan Powder Keg\u003cbr\u003e \tDivide and Rule\u003cbr\u003e \tWar or Peace?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Marko Kraljević in the Age of Capitalism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tHonouring the Kosovo Pledge\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Balkan Wars and the Dual Monarchy\u003cbr\u003e \tSlovene Rivers Flow Towards Belgrade\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Quandaries of the Bloody Yugoslav Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e \tRussian Soldiers Washing Their Feet in the Adriatic Sea\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. Turning the Austro-Hungarian Yugoslavs against the Serbs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tVidovdan 1914\u003cbr\u003e \tAll for Faith, Home, and Emperor!\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Language of Ljubljana’s Streets\u003cbr\u003e \tTeaching Culture with a Steel Fist\u003cbr\u003e \tMiloš Obilić Has Turned against Marko Kraljević\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. The Memory of Fallen Soldiers as a Seed of Discord\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tFrom the Kosovo Temple to the Pantheon of the Liberators\u003cbr\u003e \tPetrified \u003cem\u003eOpanaks \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eŠajkačas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tStone Soldiers Strike Back\u003cbr\u003e \tChaplain France Bonač\u003cbr\u003e \tMonument to the Unknown Slovene Soldier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. The Father of Modern Yugoslav Idea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tProjecting the Present to the Past\u003cbr\u003e \tA Great Yugoslav and a Small Austrian\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Dilemma of a Yugoslav Anthropologist\u003cbr\u003e \tOnly God Came from Nothing, a Yugoslavs Needed a Creator\u003cbr\u003e \tYugoslavism as a Burden\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. Creating the New Nation-State\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tIf a Kernel of Wheat Dies, It Produces Many Seeds\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Yugoslav Piedmont\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Nation-State Is Founded, What Shall Its Citizens Be Called?\u003cbr\u003e \tПијемонт vs. Piemonte\u003cbr\u003e \tSymbolic Integration\u003cbr\u003e \t“The Brother Is Dear Whatever His Faith Is”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. Celebrating the Unity of the Nation with the Three Names\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t“Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Forever Brothers to Each Other!”\u003cbr\u003e \tRousseauian Pillars of Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e \tMarch Separately, Strike Unitedly\u003cbr\u003e \tStraw that Quickly Burns\u003cbr\u003e \tA Nation-State without Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. The Yugoslav Nation-State as a Mosaic, Not a Melting Pot of Peoples\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Argonauts of Yugoslav Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Price of Unification\u003cbr\u003e \t“Yugoslav Bismarck”\u003cbr\u003e \tKing the Unifier\u003cbr\u003e \tInstrumentalisation of the National Question\u003cbr\u003e \t“Brotherhod and Unity”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042813083991,"sku":"9781805390435","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781805390435.jpg?v=1750955752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/yugoslavia-without-yugoslavs-the-history-of-a-national-idea-9781805390435","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}