1st Edition

Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe The First and Last Europe

By Traian Stoianovich Copyright 1994
    550 Pages
    by Routledge

    550 Pages
    by Routledge

    Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south. This is not a conventional history of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a "total history" that integrates as many as possible of the avenues and categories of the Balkan experience.

    Introduction PART ONE 1. Earth Culture 2. Biotechnics and Social Biology 3. Technology 4. Society 5. Economy 6. Personality and Culture PART TWO 7. The Liberties and Constraints of Culture 8. The Interacting Population Systems

    Biography

    Traian Stoianovich was born in a small village in Yugoslav Macedonia. Educated in the United States and in France, he was for four decades a teacher of European and world history at Rutgers University. He has also taught at New York University, the University of California (Berkeley), Stanford University, and Sir George Williams University (Montreal).