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Royal portraits in wall paintings of Serbian nobility at the time of the Nemanja dynasty
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2017)
The preserved wall paintings of Serbian nobility originate mainly from the period of the rule of King and Emperor Dusan (1331-1346, 1346-1355) and Emperor Uros (1355-1371). Portraits of these rulers or their family members ...
Paris period 1877-1893
(Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 2019)
The Balkan wars in Serbian history textbooks (1920-2013)
(Springer International Publishing, 2017)
Through her analysis of history textbooks, the author demonstrates that the Balkan Wars were convenient events for building key components of the Serbian romantic national myth, and that they were used to send political ...
The peace of Passarowitz and the re-establishment of the catholic diocesan administration in Belgrade and Smederevo
(Purdue University Press, 2011)
Private Yugoslavism and Serbian Public Opinion, 1890-1914
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015)
This article addresses manifestations of Yugoslavism in the pre-1914 period that have been neglected by recent scholarship. Its focus on everyday life reveals that since the mid-1890s there were constant contacts between ...
Imagining the Zadruga Zadruga as a political inspiration to the left and to the right in Serbia, 1870-1945
(Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 2020)
The concept of zadruga has shown its persistence over a long historical time and on completely opposite sides of the political spectrum. The zadruga was positioned as key political ideal for Svetozar Marković’s early ...
Belgrade: Imaging the future and creating a European metropolis
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Belgrade is a European city, the capital of the Republic of Serbia and previously capital of Yugoslavia. The city lies on the confluence of two major European rivers, the Danube and the Sava. Throughout its long history, ...
Wine or Raki - The Interplay of Climate and Society in Early Modern Ottoman Bosnia
(White Horse Press, Isle of Harris, 2011)
Variations in the agricultural production of cereals and grapes observed in sixteenth century Ottoman tax registers of Northern Bosnia could be ascribed to changes provoked, among other causes, by climatic variability ...
"We Are with You, Vietnam': Transnational Solidarities in Socialist Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2015)
Global solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles - which state socialist regimes in eastern Europe sought to inculcate in their populations from the 1950s onwards - constitutes a little studied form of modern transnational ...
The crossed swords of memory: the image of communist Yugoslavia in the textbooks of its successor states
(Routledge, 2017)
A comparative analysis of textbooks in Yugoslavia’s successor states reveals conflicting narratives of Yugoslav communism. Two basic interpretative frameworks are: communism’s state-forming function, renewing or granting ...