Nationalism and Yugoslavia : education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans before World War II /

Nationalism and Yugoslavia : education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans before World War II /

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Author / Creator:	Troch, Pieter, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Description:	viii, 319 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	International library of historical studies ; 95 International library of historical studies ; 95.
Subject:	Nationalism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century. Education -- Political aspects -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century. Education -- Political aspects Nationalism. Yugoslavia -- History -- 1918-1945. Yugoslavia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10362530

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ISBN:	1780767536 9781780767536 9780857737687
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-309) and index.
Summary:	"Created after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples -- Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins -- in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country's intellectual and political elites believed that a coherent identity could be formed in which the different South Slav groups in the state could identify with a single Balkan Yugoslav identity. Pieter Troch draws on previously unpublished sources from the domain of education to show how the state's nationalities policy initially allowed for a flexible and inclusive Yugoslav nationhood, and how that system was slowly replaced with a more domineering and rigid 'top-down' nationalism during the dictatorship of King Alexander I - who banned political parties and coded a strongly politicised Yugoslav national identity. As Yugoslav society became increasingly split between the 'pro-Yugoslav' central regime and 'anti-Yugoslav' opposition, the seeds were sown for the failure of the Yugoslav idea. Nationalism and Yugoslavia provides a valuable new insight into the complexities of pre-war Yugoslavia."--Book jacket.

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