The Balkans (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Misha Glenny
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1804-1999
- Setting: The Balkans
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, World War II, World War I, Greece or Greek people, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Turkey or Turkish people, Greco-Turkish wars, Genocide, Balkans
- Locales: Balkans
Faced with extraordinary problems of organization, given the bewildering cast of characters strutting around in a plot stretched out over two centuries and overwhelmed by subplots, Mishna Glenny wisely breaks his narrative up into manageable chunks of time and incident.
Between 1804 and 1878 the Ottoman Empire faced two uprisings by Christian Serbs and their sympathetic Muslim landlords, with the Serbs in 1815 winning virtual autonomy under the pig farmer Miloš Obrenović, who maintained chummy relations with Russia and administered the region until his abdication in 1839. The...
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