Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it provides sociocultural descriptions and historical details across a wealth of the country’s different regions.
1. Istria – the Fantastic Karst 2. The Islands of the Argonauts 3. Krk – Isle of the Frankopans 4. Rab, Zrmanja, Zadar 5. Vanished Glories – Nin, Biograd, Šibenik 6. Cabbages and Kings – Split 7. Pirates and Wines – Omiš and the Islands 8. City of the Argosies – Dubrovnik 9. ‘First Men of the Perast’ – the Boka Kotorska 10. Back Door to Montenegro 11. Holy Ground – Men, Monarchs and Marko in Serbia and Macedonia 12. The Federal Capitals 13. Step Child of the Centuries – Bosnia 14. The Way Home – Slovenia
Biography
Lovett F. Edwards
