Croatia: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

by Marcus Tanner

Overview

In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country’s independence in the modern era
 
“Full of absorbing stories and important insights, Croatia deserves to be read.”—Aleska Djilas, New York Times Book Review
 
“A lucid, expert account of Croatia’s past at the bloody crossroads of big-power ambitions—Turks, Austrians, Italians, Russians—leads smoothly into a riveting close-up view of the 1990s fight for independence.” Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300246575
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	06/25/2019
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	344,331
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Marcus Tanner is a London-based writer, journalist, editor, and commentator, specializing in Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, and Celtic countries.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

Note on Spelling viii

Preface ix

1 'The Unfaithful Croats' 1

2 Croatia Under the Hungarians 16

3 The Ramparts of Christendom 28

4 'The Remains of the Remains' 41

5 From Liberation to the French Revolution 52

6 'Still Croatia Has Not Fallen' 66

7 1848 82

8 'Neither with Vienna Nor with Budapest' 94

9 'Our President' 108

10 The Sporazum 127

11 The Ustashe 141

12 'My Conscience Is Clear' 168

13 Croatian Spring 184

14 'Comrade Tito Is Dead' 203

15 God in Heaven and Tudjman in the Homeland 221

16 'Serbia Is Not Involved' 241

17 'Danke Deutschland' 261

18 Thousand-Year-Old Dream 275

19 'Freedom Train' 299

20 La Dolce Vita 314

Notes 340

Selected Bibliography 358

Index 361

Editorial Reviews

Written with vigor, full of absorbing stories and important insights, Croatia deserves to be read.” —New York Times

"Croatia has often but not always been at war. After the Habsburgs historic victory over the Turks in the 1690s, northern Croatia enjoyed the benefits of peace and orderly government with few interruptions until the First World War. The 20th century has undone those gains. The last three generations have known warfare on a scale not seen since the Middle Ages. After the carnage of the First World War, followed the disastrous 'Independent State of Croatia' in 1941, a poisoned chalice, tainted with a Fascist ideology and an alliance with Hitler's Germany. The result was to plunge Croatia into civil war between left-wing Partisans and the Fascist Ustashe. And, after emerging into independent statehood once again in the 1990s, the Croats have continued to be dogged by the legacy of the past. The fighting of the 1940s and the mass killings of Croatia's Serb community came back to haunt the country 50 years on."—From the preface

"Croatia has often but not always been at war. After the Habsburgs historic victory over the Turks in the 1690s, northern Croatia enjoyed the benefits of peace and orderly government with few interruptions until the First World War. The 20th century has undone those gains. The last three generations have known warfare on a scale not seen since the Middle Ages. After the carnage of the First World War, followed the disastrous 'Independent State of Croatia' in 1941, a poisoned chalice, tainted with a Fascist ideology and an alliance with Hitler's Germany. The result was to plunge Croatia into civil war between left-wing Partisans and the Fascist Ustashe. And, after emerging into independent statehood once again in the 1990s, the Croats have continued to be dogged by the legacy of the past. The fighting of the 1940s and the mass killings of Croatia's Serb community came back to haunt the country 50 years on."—From the preface

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