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Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
Garancija: | Ne |
Isporuka: | BEX Pošta DExpress Post Express Lično preuzimanje |
Plaćanje: | Tekući račun (pre slanja)
PostNet (pre slanja) Ostalo (pre slanja) Pouzećem Lično |
Grad: |
Novi Sad, Novi Sad |
ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1993
Jezik: Srpski
Autor: Strani
BALKAN GHOSTS
A Journey Through History
by Robert D. Kaplan
KIRKUS REVIEW
Timely and vivid view of the Balkans, by Kaplan (Soldiers of God, 1989). Kaplan lived in Athens for seven years and has traveled frequently in Croatia, Bosnia, Albania, Moldavia, and Bulgaria. Although he`s most familiar with Romania and Greece, he provides deep and literate insight into events throughout the region. Moreover, he`s read a good deal of what historians, writers, and journalists of previous eras have written, and he uses to good effect the observations of travelers like Rebecca West, John Reed, Lawrence Durrell, and Oliver Manning. Kaplan`s text--part history, part travelogue, part political analysis--conveys both his insights and theirs with a useful sense of the history of the area: of the influence of Turkey, which, West observed, had "ruined the Balkans, with a ruin so great that it has not yet been repaired"; of the deep ethnic and religious rifts that prevail in lands like Bosnia, "rural, isolated, and full of suspicions and hatreds to a degree that the sophisticated Croats of Zagreb could barely imagine"; of the conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory, with each nation demanding that its borders revert to where they were "at the exact time when its own empire had reached its zenith"; and of the pattern of Romanian history, "long periods of docility interrupted by brief but spectacular eruptions of violence." This violence was mirrored in Yugoslavia, which, Kaplan notes, "did not deteriorate suddenly, but...step by step, throughout the 1980s." The author`s descriptions of Greek politics are equally astute, as is his discussion of the implications of the exodus of ethnic Germans throughout the area back to Germany. Meanwhile, over the whole of the Balkans broods the ghost of Communism, which will "exit the world stage revealed for what it truly was: fascism, without fascism`s ability to make the trains run on time." A memorable portrait of an increasingly important region.
Kaplan, Robert D.
Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History
Hardcover, New York: St. Martin`s Press, 1993. Seventh Printing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. `Veteran reporter, travel writer, and essayist Robert D. Kaplan offers an eloquent and incisive exploration into the heart of what he calls `history`s cauldron.` `Balkan Ghosts` progresses...from the most specific to the most general...This is a book that, once read, is impossible to forget.` Ships same or next business day. Book has minimal shelf wear, discolored edges, spine cracked in places; Dust jacket has shelf and edge wear, tanned head edge. In Very Good Plus condition. ; B&W Photographs; 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches; 307 pages.
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