- Gebundene Ausgabe: 328 Seiten
- Verlag: Columbia University Press (Mai 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 023111382X
- ISBN-13: 978-0231113823
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,2 x 15,2 x 3,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (15 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.467.003 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The ethnic conflicts in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo are often bewildering to readers without a grounding in the tangled history of the Balkans. Miranda Vickers, the leading English-language student of Albanian history, does much to clarify the situation with this thorough account of the tiny region, a fertile, mountain-ringed plateau whose Serbian name means something like "place of the blackbirds." That bucolic place name, however, does not speak to the violence that has been visited on the land for centuries.
Kosovo, as Vickers writes, has long been a place where different cultures--Slavic, Albanian, Jewish, Turkish, and Central Asian--have met and, at times, either peacefully coexisted or battled bitterly. The lines of division, Vickers proves again and again, have never been clearly drawn. The debate in the 1990s, as it was in the Middle Ages, is over which group has the clearest ancestral claim to Kosovo: the Muslim Albanians, who make up about 90 percent of Kosovo's population and trace their roots to the ancient Illyrians, hold that it is theirs, while Orthodox Serbs, defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, similarly claim that their long presence in the region gives them dominion over it--a claim that, Vickers writes, "derives purely from history and emotion." History and emotion are powerful motivators, of course, as demonstrated by the Serbian nationalists who now seek to thwart ethnic Albanian attempts to unite Kosovo with Albania itself. (The issue is complicated, Vickers contends, by the presence of many Serb fighters in the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army who are not native to the region, but mercenary veterans of the now-dormant civil war in neighboring Bosnia.) After centuries of inhabiting parallel worlds, in Vickers's useful metaphor, these two groups are now drawing on the memories of centuries of conflict to shape the present. The result is a continuing legacy of bloodshed and hatred that has captured the attention of the world. --Gregory McNamee -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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The book is historically informative but clearly biased. Among other things, it suffers from two flaws. First, it does hardly mention the other minorities that used to live, more or less peacefully, in Kosovo (before NATO decided to install the KLA as its puppet regime, that is). Second and in relation to the first flaw, it occasionally falls for the propaganda-claim that in the 1990s Kosovo's inhabitants were 90% Albanian, a claim that Vickers herself flatly contradicts by saying that an estimated 400.000 Albanians (most of them from Kosovo) had left Yugoslavia already by 1993. But the numbers game is rather fishy business in any case, since its function has been the support of the exclusive Albanian claims on the province.
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I recently attented a conference at Columbia University at which Noel Malcolm and Branimir Anzulovic as well as others were empanelled to discuss Kosovo. They so debunked the Serbian mythology being espoused over the airwaves I was amazed. The readers out there should know that Kosovo wasn't a part of the Medieval Serbia until the last 1/4th of it's existence. And that it was seperated from Serbia for over 500 years! It wasn't again integrated into Serbia until 1914 and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. At the point in which it was again under Serbian control, the Serbs accounted for less than 25% of the population. I pray you all, read the book and pay attention to the facts. It is what the Serbs least want you to do.
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It is utterly amazing to me the amount of Serbian reaction to Ms. Vickers and Mr. Malcolm. It seems that Serbs seem to hate any novel which the critics adore. First of all let me state that as someone who has actually read this book that it has a definite slant towards the Albanians, much more so that "Kosovo: A Short History." Of course I for one think that just a slant towards the Albanians is giving the Serbian nation too much credit by far. It has been repeated again and again in this century that the Serbs feed off of criticism. The delve into their siege mentality and say that the reason they are killing hundreds of thousands and raping nearly as many is because they are being forced to. NATO bombs drop so we must murder children. You cut off our electricity, we burn your grandfather alive. We don't get gasoline, you don't get your father. This is a good book, in the face of this brain dead nationalism it is a GREAT book. Facts do matter, that an image is worth a thousand words and in the past months the images we have seen from Kosovo have created prose worthy of Shakespeare.
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VERY BAD
Although not as bad as Noel Malcom's book"Kosovo: a short history". This book is BAD. It is very ANTI-SERBIAN from cover to cover. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Well-researched and fair. Writing only OK.
I have nothing to do with the conflict, and must say that the book is quite fair to both sides. A good place to learn about the emergence of the violent KLA and its challenge to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Deserves more than one star
This is just another review to jack up the reader review rating of this book, since as noted by some other reviewers, it hardly deserves such harsh panning. Read this and esp. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Misinformation.
What is the deal with all of this black and white dealings with the situation in Kosovo.This book never once pointed out the facts of the Serbian side of the story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Well written and slightly biased.....
The author has done some good research into the historical aspects of Kosovo's current dilema. The writing is slightly slanted toward the Kosavar point of view but does not go to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Biased
This book is not worth readin
Am 1. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Chuckle!
Let me begin by saying that I don't believe this book deserves the five star rating I have given it. Ms. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
Just another American propaganda piece...
While tenssion is high in the region, the Western world is not doing nothing else but complicating the situation by adopting so called "objective" attitude, which can not... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Peripheral Yugoslav issue?
I recommend the third part of this book the most. While the first two parts examine the Turk occupation, and later the progressive Albanianisation of Kosovo under socialist... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Mistaken Facts
Its Ironic how people can write books about a topic that they have no idea about. If the auther would only do their part in actually studying a topic before writting it, this book... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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