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In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe.

In doing so, he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have, over the centuries, formed unlikely alliances, thereby disputing the idea that conflict in the Balkans is the ineluctable product of ancient grudges. And he exposes the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the rest of Europe, raising profound questions about recent Western intervention.

Updated to cover the last decade's brutal conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia, the surge of organised crime in the region, the rise of Turkey and the rocky road to EU membership, The Balkans remains the essential and peerless study of Europe's most complex and least understood region.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: The Balkans, 1804-2012
• Subtitle: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
• Author: Misha Glenny
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800
• EAN: 9781783784523
• ISBN: 1783784520
• ID: 18254048
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 834 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 155 × 52 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. December 2017

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