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100 1 _aKaplan, Robert D.,
_d1952-
_96923
245 1 0 _aBalkan ghosts :
_ba journey through history /
_cRobert D. Kaplan.
250 _aNew ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bPicador/St. Martin's Press,
_cc2005.
300 _alv, 307 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., map, ports. ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _aOriginally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue : saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water -- Pt. 1. Yugoslavia : historical overtures -- 1. Croatia : "just so they could go to heaven" -- 2. Old Serbia and Albania : Balkan "West Bank" -- 3. Macedonia : "a hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars" -- 4. The white city and its prophet -- Pt. 2. Romania : Latin passion play -- 5. Athenee Palace, Bucharest -- 6. The Danube's bitter end -- 7. Moldavia : "conditioned to hate" -- 8. The land beyond Dracula's castle : the painted monasteries of Bucovina -- 9. Transylvanian voices -- 10. Transylvanian tale : the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin -- 11. Last glimpses : Timisoara and Bucharest -- Pt. 3. Bulgaria : tales from communist Byzantium -- 12. "The warmth of each other's bodies" -- 13. The price of friendship -- 14. The bad and the good -- Pt. 4. Greece : western mistress, eastern bride -- 15. Farewell to Salonika -- 16. "Teach me, Zorba : teach me to dance!" -- 17. The secret history -- Epilogue : the road to Adrianople.
520 1 _a"This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power."--BOOK JACKET.
600 1 0 _aKaplan, Robert D.,
_d1952-
_xTravel
_zBalkan Peninsula.
_96924
651 0 _aBalkan Peninsula
_xDescription and travel.
_96925
651 0 _aBalkan Peninsula
_xHistory.
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