Balkan ghosts : a journey through history
Robert D. Kaplan (Author)
Provides an account of Kaplan's travels through the Balkan countries and a history of the region. This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power. --Adapted from publisher description
Print Book, English, 2005
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Picador/St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005
History
lv, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
9780312424930, 0312424930
1001857357
Prologue: Saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water. Part one. Yugoslavia: historical overtures. Croatia: "just so they could go to heaven"
Old Serbia and Albania: Balkan "West Bank"
Macedonia: "a hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars"
The white city and its prophet. Part two. Romania: Latin passion play. Athenee Palace, Bucharest
The Danube's bitter end
Moldavia: "conditioned to hate"
The land beyond Dracula's castle: the painted monasteries of Bucovina
Transylvanian voices
Transylvanian tale: the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin
Last glimpses: Timisoara and Bucharest. Part three. Bulgaria: tales from communist Byzantium. "The warmth of each other's bodies"
The price of friendship
The bad and the good. Part four. Greece: western mistress, eastern bride. Farewell to Salonika
"Teach me, Zorba: teach me to dance!"
The secret history
Epilogue: The road to Adrianople
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993