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The Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars

In The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond, André Gerolymatos attempts to draw out the historical attitudes, positions and loyalties that have come to define the region and its people.

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Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria and the Working Classes 1856-1878

Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria and the Working Classes 1856-1878

An academic study, the purpose of the book is to investigate the impact of the Bulgarian Agitation of 1876-78 as a social protest movement on both domestic policy in England and foreign policy abroad.

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Bulgarian Rhapsody

Bulgarian Rhapsody

Book review of Bulgarian Rhapsody: The Best of Balkan Cuisine by Linda Joyce Forristal.

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Book Review: The Fracture Zone

Book Review: The Fracture Zone

In The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans, Simon Winchester frames a personal memoir against the backdrop of ethnic strife erupting in Kosovo in 1999.

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Summer in the Balkans

Summer in the Balkans

Summer in the Balklans: Laughter and Tears After Communism is a book about people captured in the reflections of a Fulbright scholar while in Bulgaria during the summer of 1992.

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A Concise History of Bulgaria

A Concise History of Bulgaria

R.J. Crampton’s A Concise History of Bulgaria has been widely acclaimed as the best short treatment of the subject available today.

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Bulgaria is Not the Land of Roses Only

Bulgaria is Not the Land of Roses Only

Review of a monograph describing the history of Bulgaria and the physical and industrial geography of the country.

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Bulgaria and Byzantium

Bulgaria and Byzantium

Book review of an investigation into the relationship between Bulgaria and Byzantium in the ninth and tenth centuries, a critical period in Balkan history.

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Book Review: Bulgaria Past and Present

Book Review: Bulgaria Past and Present

Bulgaria Past and Present, by George C. Logio, is a sympathetic review and analysis of the Bulgarian economic and political landscape in the mid-1930s.

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Book Review: The Orient Within

Book Review: The Orient Within

Mary Neuberger’s The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria is a detailed study of the policies, actions and attitudes of the Bulgarian state towards its Muslim minorities during the period 1930 to 1989. The total span of the book is somewhat broader, beginning with observations as far back as [...]

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