Bosnia: A Short History

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Pan, 2002 - 384 pages
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This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly acclaimed "Bosnia: A Short History" provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped.This expanded edition of "Bosnia" includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed Vance-Owen peace plan, the tenuous resolution of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace.

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Bosnia: a short history

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The collapse of former Yugoslavia and the ensuing war have shifted scholarly attention to its successor states. Malcolm's success consists in demonstrating why Bosnia-Hercegovina's distinctive history ... Consulter l'avis complet

Histoire mouvementée et passionnante d'un petit pays exotique mais pas si lointain

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Une petite incursion de deux jours en Bosnie-Herzegovine, à Mostar pour être précis, m'avait donné l'envie d'en savoir plus sur ce pays aux influences très diverses. Riche de ses composantes ottomane ... Consulter l'avis complet

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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Noel Malcolm is a British columnist, writer and editor who was born in 1956. He was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1981 to 1988. Malcolm left teaching to become the Foreign Editor of the Spectator and a political columnist for London's Daily Telegraph. Malcolm has written Bosnia: A Short Story, which puts the Bosnia-Hercegovina conflict into historical context and Kosovo: A Short Story, which outlines its history from medieval Serb state into modern times.

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