Search Results: Balkans from KALAMOS BOOKS

Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1982 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Greek Edition. [ Greek Lands in History series ]Comprehensive history of Macedonia from prehistoric times to the present. 572 p. illus. maps. bibliography index, NOTE: Extremely heavy [2.8 kg] large format volume [30x23x4.5cm].

Cornwall: Elbow Publishing, 2013 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st UK Edition. A century of Albanian and Balkan history is seen from an unusual variety of perspectives in this collection of new essays in honour of a man who parachuted into the country during the Second World War. It includes fresh analyses of aspects of Albania in wartime and of Enver Hoxha's regime and its fall, and first-hand accounts and critiques of the role of the international community in the region. Contributors are a unique mix of well-known academics and senior international diplomats and specialists, including Nada Boskovska, Bernd Fischer, James Pettifer, Miranda Vickers and Robert Wilton.405p..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993 Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Thus. Comprehensive survey by an informed American journalist of the various countries and problems in the Balkans, the consequences of the collapse both of the Ottoman Empire and Communism. 307p. plates.bibliography.index.(Front cover slightly crumpled) ..

New York: Vintage, 1994 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Reprint. Comprehensive survey by an informed American journalist of the various countries and problems in the Balkans, the consequences of the collapse both of the Ottoman Empire and Communism. 307p. plates.bibliography.index. Trade Pbk..

Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies / Idryma Meleton Chersonisou tou Aimou , 1996 Journal. As New. Soft cover. Scholarly articles and book reviews relating to the Balkan region. 191p. illus. Articles in English and French.

New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Editors. 1st.UK Edition . [Studies in Russian and East European History series] An interesting collection of essays by various authors relating to social and political attitudes and events in Greece,Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Montenegro.Originally delivered at a Symposium organized in October 1977 by the Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King's College, University of London. [Includes : The 'untoward event' by C.M. Woodhouse/ Greek society on the eve of independence by Yannis Yannoulopoulos /State and society in the Ionian Islands, 1800-1830 by George Yannoulopoulos / The Greek intelligentsia, 1780-1830 by Peter Mackridge / The Greek mercantile bourgeoisie by Richard Clogg / A Greek mercantile paroikia by Viron Karidis /Society in Serbia, 1791-1830by Stevan Pavlowitch / Bulgarian society in the early 19th century by R.J. Crampton / Montenegrin society, 1800-1830 by Alan Ferguson / Romanian society… Read More

Toronto: Stoddart., 2001 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.

Thessalonike: Institute for Balkan Studies., 1983 Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. 1st Greek Edition.. Balkanika symmeikta : periodike ekdose tou Idrymatos Meleton Chersonesou tou Aimu .Edited by Konstantinos K Papoulides. [WorldCat lists copies in Europe, but seems not find any in USA].

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2000 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... "At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever." "Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and replaces stereotypes with an account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped their inhabitants' lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia the Balkans has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Mountain ranges made farming hard and political control almost impossible and allowed small communities to live side by side through to the end of the twentieth century. Empires based on religion not ethnicity shaped customs and beliefs in ways that did not entirely vanish with the coming of modernity." A short but well researched introduction to the complex and always compelling history of the Balkans. 160p. bibliography. index.

Englewood, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... Short but useful introduction to the history of the Balkans/ 148p. bibliography.index.

New York: Time/Life., 1967 Book. Fine. Printed Hardcover. (Life World Library series).

New York: Modern Library, 2002 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years. Focusing on events from the emergence of the nation-state onward, The Balkans reveals with piercing clarity the historical roots of current conflicts and gives a landmark reassessment of the regions history, from the world wars and the Cold War to the collapse of communism, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the continuing search for stability in southeastern Europe. 190p.maps, bibliography. index.

London: Penguin, 1982 Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Reprint.. Classic and engrossing account of Yugoslavian history,culture & politics prior to WW II. 1181p. bibliography.index.

Rockford IL: Chronicles Press, 2003 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st.US Edition.. ' . a travel book written for serious travelers, including armchair travelers.The book is much more about the history and prehistory, the culture and the contemporary scene than about recreational opportunities. It is the kind of book you would want to read before or during your own travel in these fascinating countries. " 195p. illus bibliography.

Athens: The Citizen's Movement, 1993 Brochure. As New. Original Wraps. 2nd Edition. Pamphlet discussing Greek concerns after the breakup of Yuggoslavia and the rise of irredentist attempts by the FROM to widen their borders to enclose Greek territory.The maps in this publication display the shifting political boundaries of the Balkan region since the end of the Ottoman empire and how the recent revisionist maps issued in FROM are creating international tensions 13 p. illus.maps [9 copies found in Worldcat].

London: Macmillan., 1994 Ex-Library. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Reprint. 340p.maps, bibliography, index [Library stamp].

London: John Murray, 2014 Book. Illus. by Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Pbk.Ed... A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III ' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.362p..

London: Central European University Press, 1995 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition.. Collection of writings describing the experiences of young people displaced by the break-up of the former Yugoslavia."In Children of Atlantis the many young people who fled the conflicts innundating the former Yugoslavia describe their experiences of the horrors of war, their feelings of loss and uncertainty, their hopes for a better future. The essays in this book offer snapshots of a generation of young people on the threshold of their working lives, uprooted from the world they grew up in, confronting the task of making something of their lives in the face of the catastrophe that has overwhelmed them, their families, their friends, and their homeland." 183p..

London: Faber & Faber, 1966 Ex-Library. Good>Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Interesting book about Yugoslavia under Tito 291p. map illuss.index. Ex-Library copy - clean, btight and tight and with no marks other than by brown tape marks on endpapers.

Skopje: Kultura, 1971 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus.. The political history of the foundation of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from IMRO to the end of World War II.Translation from Macedonian by Bernard Meares. 152p. Front cover with slight mark and scuffing, else fine.