ISBN10: 1850657726, ISBN13: 9781850657729, [publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd] Softcover Good
[liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

E-124 C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd 2005 Paperback Very Good Trade PB. 8vo. C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd. 2005. 357 pgs. Illustrated with color plates. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Myths and Boundaries in South Eastern Europe examines how historical myths have contributed to the crystallization of national boundaries in the Balkans, primarily among the South Slavs. Myths and the relevance of myth-making in politics are well-established fields of social inquiry, as are boundaries and the mechanisms the define them, but they have largely developed in isolation from each other. Only rarely have studies of historical myths taken into account their boundary-creating effects. Conversely the study of identity boundaries has mostly focused on mechanisms other than myth-making. One of the achievements of this book is to bring these two tradition of inquiry into dialogue with each other. E-124; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

ISBN10: 1850657726, ISBN13: 9781850657729, [publisher: London : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd] Softcover First Edition xi, 357 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 22 cm. inscribed by editor. Contents: Introduction: Assessing the role of historical myths in modern society / Pål Kolstø -- The symbolic identity of Croatia in the triangle crossroads-bulwark-bridge / Ivo Zanic -- The boundary on the Drina: the meaning and development of the mythologem / Ivo Goldstein -- Bosnian historical reality and its reflection in myth / Sreko M. Dzaja -- The sanctification of enmity: churches and the construction of founding myths of Serbia and Croatia / Vjekoslav Perica -- Adamant and treacherous: Serbian historians on religious conversions / Bojan Aleksov -- The evolution of boundary: defining historical myths in Serbian academic and public opinion in the 1990s / Ana Antic -- Between destiny and contingency: variations on historical narratives in the arts during the break-up of Yugoslavia / Zoran Terzic -- Ancient nationhood and the struggle for statehood: historiographic myths in the Republic of Macedonia / Ulf Brunnbauer -- Historical myths: the Bulgarian case of pride and prejudice / Albena Hranova.
[Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]