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050 00 $aDR37$b.C3513 2019
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100 1 $aCalic, Marie-Janine,$eauthor.
240 10 $aSüdosteuropa.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe great cauldron :$ba history of southeastern Europe /$cMarie-Janine Calic ; translated by Elizabeth Janik.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $a724 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aTranslated from the German.
520 $aWe often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe. Marie-Janine Calic reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe's position at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Krujë in 1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished even his friend Casanova. Calic's ambitious reappraisal expands and deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples, faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSoutheastern Europe before 1500 -- Rise of the Ottoman Empire -- Challenges of the Ancien Regime -- The age of global revolutions -- Toward the nation-state -- Imperialism and crisis -- From the Balkan Wars to the Second World War -- Globalization and fragmentation -- Conclusion: Southeastern Europe and the world.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 0 $aHistory, Ancient.
650 7 $aHistory, Ancient.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958352
651 7 $aBalkan Peninsula.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01241484
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aJanik, Elizabeth,$etranslator.
765 08 $iTranslation of:$aCalic, Marie-Janine.$tSüdosteuropa.$dMünchen : C.H. Beck, [2016]$z9783406698309$w(DLC) 2017377293$w(OCoLC)959882266
852 00 $bglx$hDR37$i.C3513 2019