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Catalogue details
- Call number
- E 914.96 KAP
- Author
- Robert Kaplan
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, New York
- Year published
- 1993
- ISBN
- 0312087012
- Format
- Paperback
- Subject
- History & Geography
- Description
- 307 p.
- Notes
- ROBERT D. KAPLAN has not written a typical survey, as he makes clear in his preface; rather, "Balkan Ghosts" is a portrait gallery of the heroes and villains of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and what used to be Yugoslavia. It also offers the reader an often delightful romp through the past and present politics of a region the author has been reporting on for publications like The Atlantic and The New Republic over many years. He intends to convince us, and he assuredly does, with gusto, that the peoples of these five alienated countries do indeed form an unhappy whole. And while the majority of their leaders indignantly deny any association with the Balkans, a term that since the late 19th century has stood for political chaos and internecine warfare, these lands are certainly all marked by pervasive suffering and extreme nationalist passions.