Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-265) and index.

Clio amid the ruins : Yugoslavia and its predecessors in recent historiography / Duan J. Djordjevich -- Ambiguous heroes : Balkan bandits and national ideologies / Wendy Bracewell -- The rise and fall of morlacchismo : South Slavic identity in the mountains of Dalmatia / Larry Wolff -- An island of peace in a turbulent world : old Ragusans' statesmanship as a paradigm for the modern Balkans / Baria Kreki -- Transhumance / Wayne S. Vucinich -- South Slav education : was there Yugoslavism? / Charles Jelavich -- Yugoslavism versus Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene nationalism : political, ideological, and cultural causes of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia / Arnold Suppan -- The Macedonian question and instability in the Balkans / Andrew Rossos -- A crisis of identity : Serbia at the end of the century / Thomas A. Emmert -- Heretical thoughts about the postcommunist transition, with particular attention to the once and future Yugoslavia / John V.A. Fine -- Solving the wars of Yugoslav succession / Gale Stokes.

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