TWENTY-FIVE
LECTURES ON MODERN BALKAN HISTORY
(THE BALKANS IN THE AGE OF NATIONALISM)
by Steven W. Sowards
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Table
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TOPIC
1: Defining the "Balkans:" An other Europe
- Lecture
No. 1: Introduction to the course: The geography and ethnic geography
of the Balkans to 1500
- Lecture
No. 2: "Asia begins at the Landstrasse:" Comparing Eastern European and
European histories
TOPIC
2: The "Old Regimes" in the Balkans before 1790
TOPIC
3: The earliest national revolutions, 1804-1830
TOPIC
4: The Revolution of 1848 and its legacy
TOPIC
5: The impact of the wider world: Economic, social, political
TOPIC
6: The failure of change from above: Reform in Macedonia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Lecture
No. 11: Macedonia and the failure of Ottoman reforms
- Lecture
No. 12: Bosnia-Hercegovina and the failure of reform in Austria-Hungary
TOPIC
7: Balkan nationalisms: Serbia and Greece
- Lecture
No. 13: Serbian nationalism from the "Nacertanije" to the Yugoslav Kingdom
- Lecture
No. 14: Greek nationalism, the "Megale Idea" and Venizelism to 1923
TOPIC
8: World War I: Causes and legacies
TOPIC
9: Limitations of Western models in the interwar period
TOPIC
10: Balkan politics during World War II
- Lecture
No. 19: The traditional regimes and the challenge of Nazism: Collaboration
vs. resistance
- Lecture
No. 20: The traditional regimes and the challenge of Communism: Patriotism
vs. opportunism
TOPIC
11: The coming of the Cold War
TOPIC
12: The Balkans in the age of bi-polar politics
TOPIC
13: Explaining the revolutions of the 1980s
POSTLOGUE
- Postlogue: The Greek public debt crisis, Grexit, and the Balkan limits of "Europe"
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