Table of Contents

Preface Chronology Serbia Today The Splendor of Medieval Serbia Living with the Turks: Ottoman Rule in the Balkans Revived Serbia: The Wars of Independence and the Building of a New Country Taking Its Place in the Sun: The Expansion of Serbia Serbia in the Great War The Troubled Creation: The First Decades of Yugoslavia Nazis, Partisans, Chetniks, and Ustase: The Maelstrom of World War II Serbia in Tito's Yugoslavia What Price Independence? The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1989-1995 Successor State or Internationsl Pariah? After Milosevic: A New Beginning Conclusion Brief Biographies of Important Figures in Serbia History Glossary of Foreign and Historical Terms Bibliographic Essay Index

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The most up-to-date narrative history of Serbia, from its historic past to 2001.

About the Author

JOHN K. COX is Associate Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University. His main research interest is the twentieth-century intellectual history of the South Slavic lands s teaching interests include World War I and the Holocaust. A former Rotary scholar in Hungary, and a Fulbright fellow in Austria and Slovenia, he knows Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, German, and several other languages of the region. He is the author of several chapters and essays on nationalism, Yugoslav communism, and Balkan fascism, as well as numerous book reviews about the breakup of Yugoslavia.

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?The History of Serbia succeeds in what it sets out to do--to provide a simple initiation to an interesting not-so-well-known country.?-HISTORY: Reviews of New Books

"The History of Serbia succeeds in what it sets out to do--to provide a simple initiation to an interesting not-so-well-known country."-HISTORY: Reviews of New Books