This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia - a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geograph…
1 Introduction: The Invention of Good Government for the Law of Nations -- 2 Vattels Droit des gens. A Transnational Bestseller from the Age of Enlightenment -- 3 The Good Government: The Constituting and Constituted Nation -- 4 The First Reception: Sicily, Corsica and the Medit…
The nationalities question in the Soviet Union
The aim of this book is to provide a systematic analysis of the Soviet Union's major nationalities in light of the new developments under perestroika. It deals in detail with 20 of the 140 nationalities, and looks at how they have been affected by, and responded to glasnost.
Published amid the unravelling of the second Yugoslavia, this text concerns the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity - its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its perculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.
Interpreting the German--Polish relationship according to a paradigm of 'synthesis' between nations, this book examines the process and socio-political effects of how conflict and contradiction between Germans and Poles gave rise to mentalities and behaviours that were 'transnat…
