Sarajevo: A Biography

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University of Michigan Press, 2006 - 435 pages
Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history
 

Contents

Sarajevos Founders and Foundations
8
Maps
9
The Sarajevo Uprising and the Advent of Habsburg Rule
36
The Making of Fin de Siècle Sarajevo
68
The New Nationalism Assassination and War
93
Royal Yugoslavias Forgotten City
130
Occupation and Urban Resistance in the Second World War
168
Sarajevo under Socialism
204
Death and Life in Sarajevo under Siege
287
Sarajevo in the Long Shadow of War
335
Conclusion
353
Bibliography
404
Index
417
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From Socialist Decline to Sarajevos National Division
249

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About the author (2006)

Robert Donia is a Research Associate at the University of Michigan's Center for Russian and East European Studies, a Visiting Scholar in history at the University of California at San Diego, and holds a courtesy appointment as Associate Professor of History at the University of Sarajevo. He is the author of Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1914, and co-author with John V.A. Fine of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed. He has served as an expert witness in seven war crimes trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague.

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