Description
About the Author
Andrew Wachtel is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor of the Humanities; Dean of The Graduate School, and Director, Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies all at Northwestern University.
Reviews
Wachtel has an eye for the telling artifact, poem, ritual, linguistic feature, and custom, not simply the seminal event. He also has a fine sense of how much of the story has to be left out if a tight, fluent narrative is to be maintained. * Foreign Affairs *
A remarkable concoction. In a seemingly impossible bit of synthesis...this slim masterpiece gracefully navigates potential nationalist objections with a slight of pen few could hope to accomplish...the author offers the targeted audience a first-class compliment to the world history textbooks taught in universities today. * Journal of World History *
Wachtel's book not only dispels the myth of the Balkans as a land of violence and ancient hatreds, but also focuses on the gradual transformation of the region from a land in-between and borderland into contemporary Southeast Europe. * Slavic and Eastern European Journal *
Book Information
ISBN 9780195338010
Author Andrew Wachtel
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 295g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 231mm * 10mm