Objavljeno je 2019. godine englesko izdanje knjige \u201eS\u00fcdosteuropa: Weltgeschichte einer Region\u201c njema\u010dke povjesni\u010darke Marie-Janine Calic, a u pripremi je i bosanskohercegova\u010dko izdanje!<\/p>\n
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A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.<\/strong><\/p>\n We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron<\/em> invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe.<\/p>\n Marie-Janine Calic<\/strong> reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe\u2019s position at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Kruj\u00eb in 1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished even his friend Casanova.<\/p>\n Calic\u2019s ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marie-Janine Calic<\/strong> is Professor of Eastern and Southeastern European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t<\/a> in Munich. She served as a political adviser to the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe in Brussels and for the UN Special Representative for the Former Yugoslavia in Zagreb. She also worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia<\/a> at The Hague, and the Conflict Prevention Network of the European Commission and Parliament<\/a> in Brussels. Calic has published and lectured extensively about the Balkans and is a regular commentator on Balkan affairs for the German media.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPanoramic and convincingly presented history of the region\u2026 Calic is an authoritative guide. Her book is a work of ambitious chronological and thematic scope, taking the story from Alexander the Great to the present day.\u201d\u2014Tony Barber, Financial Times<\/p>\n \u201cSince the early twentieth century, southeastern Europe has been disparaged as \u2018the Balkans,\u2019 a term that often connotes tribalism and violence. In this detailed and comprehensive history, Calic nimbly seeks to broaden the way the region is understood. The book ranges from the advent of Ottoman dominion to the collapse of Yugoslavia.\u201d\u2014Larry Wolff, Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n \u201cCalic provides a sweeping overview of the history of this region and its people, from the late antiquity to the present day\u2026 Informed, comprehensive, and methodical, The Great Cauldron<\/em> provides valuable insight into southeastern Europe and its turbulent past.\u201d\u2014Iva Glisic, Australian Book Review<\/p>\n \u201cCovers in detail the history of a geographical region that currently comprises more than a dozen nations, from its earliest recorded tribes through to modernity\u2026 An impressive work.\u201d\u2014Andrea Tallarita, PopMatters<\/p>\n \u201cAn indispensable new history of southeastern Europe\u2026 It stands out for its integration of economic and demographic data with political and cultural history.\u201d\u2014Choice<\/p>\n \u201cOn rare but memorable occasions, a book comes along that fills a vacuum one did not know existed. In an era when nationalist stereotypes and conflicts dominate, Calic tells a totally absorbing, transformative story of the far more significant role of transborder, and even global exchanges of people, ideas, and things that have defined the Balkan Peninsula\u2014from Romania to Albania to Greece\u2014over two thousand years. So much for the myth of a peripheral backwater! Her eloquent narrative tells us much more than the story of southeastern Europe; it also sheds light on our interpretations of contemporary history and our assumptions even beyond Europe.\u201d\u2014Susan L. Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy<\/p>\n \u201cCalic convincingly and thoroughly shows the Balkans to be a quintessential \u2018world region,\u2019 one whose historical character has been decidedly cosmopolitan, diverse, and dynamic. She successfully challenges and overturns the usual assumptions that uncritically reproduce stereotypes of Balkan parochialism and isolationism.\u201d\u2014Edin Hajdarpasic, author of Whose Bosnia?<\/p>\n \u201cThere has long been a need for a comprehensive, new history of Europe\u2019s controversial quadrant. Calic\u2019s lucid, authoritative account, from ancient times and ethnic origins to warfare and recovery since 1989, is a stellar example of the new global history. She sees southeastern Europe as a cauldron in which its peoples and polities are stirred together with Europe\u2019s longest and largest set of transnational and transcultural influences. Throughout, she shows how these interrelations belied any separate Balkan definition of this all-too-accessible corner of the continent.\u201d\u2014John R. Lampe, author of Yugoslavia as History<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n List of Maps*<\/p>\n Introduction<\/p>\n Conclusion: Southeastern Europe and the World<\/p>\n Chronology<\/p>\n Glossary<\/p>\n Notes<\/p>\n Works Cited<\/p>\n Acknowledgments<\/p>\n Index<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * Maps<\/p>\n Map 0.1. Southeastern Europe in 2018<\/p>\n Map 1.1. Southeastern Europe in 1200<\/p>\n Map 2.1. Ottoman expansion<\/p>\n Map 2.2. Southeastern Europe in 1475<\/p>\n Map 2.3. The Ottoman world of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha<\/p>\n Map 3.1. Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n Map 7.1. Southeastern Europe in 1930<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n