Great Britain and the Creation of Yugoslavia Negotiating Balkan Nationality and Identity 1st Edition by James Evans ISBN 0755622340 9780755622344

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ISBN 10: 0755622340

ISBN 13: 9780755622344

Author: James Evans 

The final weeks of the First World War saw a revolutionary upheaval in Europe as old empires collapsed and new, self-proclaimed ‘nation-states’ emerged in their place. For its advocates, the Yugoslav state created in 1918 represented a largely uniform culture and identity. But as its official name-the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes-suggested, its population was by no means homogeneous and Britain, who had been instrumental in the birth of the state at Versailles, as well as other Europeans and the Americans, came to appreciate that divisions of religious affiliation and historical tradition continued to override linguistic unity.
Through analysing British ideas and assumptions about the region’s history and culture, James Evans assesses how these were reshaped by newly prevalent ideas about Yugoslav nationality. Attitudes and preconceptions first formed during this period would prove remarkably enduring, making their mark on British responses to events in Yugoslavia throughout the country’s troubled history.
Great Britain and the Creation of Yugoslavia sheds valuable light not only on attitudes to Yugoslav nationality in the early twentieth century, but also on western responses to the violent demise of the Yugoslav state at the close of the century.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Part I: The Idea of Yugoslav Nationality in British Writing, 1900-1918: Elements and Themes
1. Race
2. Language
3. Religion
4. Tradition
Part II: The New State of Yugoslavia in British Foreign Policy, 1914-1921
5. Introduction to Part II
6. ‘Montenegro – finis!’
7. Britain and the Idea of Yugoslav Unity, 1914-1918
8. Britain and the First Yugoslav Constitution, 1918-1921
Conclusion

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