1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History
Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution.
Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia’s successor states and its neighbors.
Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings.
Introductory overview: premodern borders and modern controversies
John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer
PART I: The early modern Balkans as imperial borderlands
Overview: the Balkans divided between three empires
John R. Lampe
1. Ottoman Albania and Kosovo, Albanians and Serbs, sixteenth–eighteenth centuries
Oliver Jens Schmitt
2. The Venetian- Ottoman borderland in Dalmatia
Josip Vrandečić
3. The Phanariot regime in the Romanian Principalities, 1711/ 1716–1821
Constantin Iordachi
4. Ottoman Bosnia and the Bosnian Muslims
Leyla Amzi- Erdogdular
PART II: Nation- and state- building, 1815–1914
Overview: nations and states between changing borders and the Great Powers in the “long” nineteenth century
John R. Lampe
5. Nineteenth- century national identities in the Balkans: evolution and contention
Diana Mishkova
6. Bulgaria from liberation to independence, 1878–1908
Roumen Daskalov
7. Croatian political diversity and national development in the nineteenth century
Iskra Iveljić
8. Montenegro as an independent state, 1878–1912
John D. Treadway
9. The agrarian question in Romania, 1744–1921
Constantin Iordachi
10. Slovene clerical politics, cooperatives and the language question to 1914
Gregor Kranjc
11. Serbia’s promise and problems, 1903–1914
Dubravka Stojanović
12. The Macedonian question: asked and answered, 1878–1913
Keith Brown
13. Austria- Hungary and the Balkans
Roumiana Preshlenova
14. Bosnia- Herzegovina under Austria- Hungary: from occupation to assassination, 1878–1914
Robert J. Donia
PART III: The Balkan Wars and the First World War, 1912–1923
Overview: armies and occupations, peace settlements and forced migrations
John R. Lampe
15. Bulgaria’s wars and defeats, 1912–1919
Richard Hall
16. After empire: the First World War and the question of Albanian independence
Lejnar Mitrojorgji
17. Greece from national expansion to schism and catastrophe, 1912–1922
Stefan Papaioannou
18. Habsburg South Slavs in peace and war, 1912–1918
Rok Stergar
19. From Salonica to Belgrade: the emergence of Yugoslavia, 1917–1921
Dejan Djokić
PART IV: Southeastern European states and national politics, 1922–1939
Overview: the interwar decades from parliamentary struggles and international pressures to authoritarian regimes
John R. Lampe
20. Interwar ideas and images of nation, class, and gender
Balázs Trencsényi
21. Interwar women’s movements from the Little Entente to nationalism
Marijana Kardum
22. Interwar Greece: its generals, a republic, and the monarchy
Katerina Lagos
23. Bulgaria from Stamboliiski and IMRO to Tsar Boris, 1919–1943
Roumen Daskalov
24. The legion “Archangel Michael” in Romania, 1927–1941
Constantin Iordachi
25. Albania between Fan Noli, King Zog, and Italian hegemony
Robert C. Austin
26. The Croat Peasant Party: from Stjepan Radić to Vladko Maček
Mark Biondich
27. Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia from revolt and resettlement to repression
Vladan Jovanović
28. Yugoslav identity in the interwar period
Christian Axboe Nielsen
PART V: Economies and societies, 1878–1939
Overview: challenges of change. Economic and population growth, social and cultural transformations up to World War II
Ulf Brunnbauer
29. Demographic growth: patterns and problems, 1878–1939
Siegfried Gruber
30. Financing economic growth and facing foreign debt, 1878–1939
John R. Lampe
31. Modern manufacture, state support, and foreign investment: comparing Balkan textile industries, 1878–1939
Jelena Rafajlovi ć and John R. Lampe
32. Neighbors into foreigners: the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1878–1941
Theodora Dragostinova
33. Southeastern European overseas migration and return from the late nineteenth century until the 1930s
Ulf Brunnbauer
34. Eugenics and race in Southeastern Europe
Marius Turda
35. Sofia and Plovdiv between the world wars
Mary Neuburger
PART VI: From the Second World War to the establishment of the postwar regimes, 1939–1949
Overview: collaboration and occupation, resistance and civil war, regime change
John R. Lampe
36. The Albanian Communist Party from prewar origins to wartime resistance and power
Lejnar Mitrojorgji
37. Romania in the Second World War
Vladimir Solonari
38. The Ustaša regime and the politics of terror in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941–1945
Rory Yeomans
39. Partisans and Chetniks in occupied Yugoslavia
Heather Williams
40. An oppressive liberation: Yugoslavia 1944–1948
Zoran Janjetović
41. Greece from occupation and resistance to civil war, 1941–1949
Ioannis D. Stefanidis
PART VII: Cold War division and European transition, 1949–1989
Overview: communist regimes and the Greek exception
John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer
42. The collectivization of agriculture in Southeastern Europe
Arnd Bauerkämper
43. The Soviet factor in Bulgaria’s foreign policy
Mihail Gruev
44. Enver Hoxha’s Albania: Yugoslav, Soviet, and Chinese relations and ruptures
Elidor Mëhilli
45. Ceauşescu’s National Communism as National Stalinism
Vladimir Tismaneanu and Marius Stan
46. Yugoslavia’s third way: the rise and fall of self-management
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
47. Greece’s Cold War: exceptionalism in Southeastern Europe
Othon Anastasakis
48. Yugoslavia’s political endgame: Serbia and Slovenia in the 1980s
Jasna Dragović-Soso
49. Changes of social structure from the late 1940s to the 1980s
Ulf Brunnbauer
50. Financing industrialization, 1949–1989: from foreign aid to foreign debt
John R. Lampe
PART VIII: Epilogue
Epilogue: Southeastern Europe after the Cold War
John R. Lampe and Ulf Brunnbauer
51. Yugoslavia’s wars of succession 1991–1999
Marie- Janine Calic
52. From foreign intervention to European integration: Southeastern Europe since 1989
Klaus Buchenau
Biography
John R. Lampe is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park and Global Europe Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. He is the author of a dozen books, including two editions of both Balkans into Southeastern Europe and Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country.
Ulf Brunnbauer is Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg. He is also Professor of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg. He is author and (co-)editor of more than twenty books, mostly on the history of Southeastern Europe since the nineteenth century, among them Globalizing Southeastern Europe: Emigrants, America and the State since the Late 19th Century (2016).
"The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History is a great guide to regional history for students, public workers, educators and interested members of the public." - Tereza Juhászová, Charles University, Slovansky prehled/Slavonic Review
