Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
Authors: Duancic, Vedran
Free Preview- Examines the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia
- Explores the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands
- Approaches geographical discourse in Yugoslavia as part of a wider European scientific network
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- About this book
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This book is the first historical work to examine the notion of national territories in Yugoslavia – a concept fundamental for the understanding of Yugoslav history. Exploring the intertwined histories of geography as an emerging discipline in the South Slavic lands and geographical works describing interwar Yugoslavia, the book focuses on the engagement of geographers in the on-going political conflict over the national question. Duančić shows that geographers were uniquely equipped to address the creation of the new country and the numerous problems it faced, as they provided accounts of Yugoslavia’s past, present, and even future, all of which were understood as inherently embedded in geography. By analyzing a large body of geographical narratives on the Yugoslav state, the book follows both the attempts to “naturalize” and present Yugoslavia as a sustainable political and cultural unit, as well as the attempts to challenge its existence by pointing to unresolvable, geographically conditioned tensions within it. The book approaches geographical discourse in Yugoslavia as part of a wider European scientific network, pointing to similarities and specifically Yugoslav characteristics.
- About the authors
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Vedran Duančić is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-21
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The Emerging Geographical Network in Yugoslavia
Pages 23-48
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Jovan Cvijić and the Anthropogeography of the Balkans
Pages 49-94
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Geographical Narration of Yugoslavia
Pages 95-145
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Geopolitical Visions of Yugoslavia
Pages 147-188
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
- Authors
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- Vedran Duancic
- Series Title
- Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-50259-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-50259-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-50258-4
- Series ISSN
- 2523-7985
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 286
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
