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" Balkan ghosts : "
Robert D. Kaplan.
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BL
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1033953
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b788323
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| Main Entry
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-
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Balkan ghosts : : a journey through history /\ Robert D. Kaplan.
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1st Picador ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Picador :: Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers,, 2005.
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lv, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map, portraits ;; 21 cm
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0312424930
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: 9780312424930
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Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue : saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water -- pt. 1. Yugoslavia : historical overtures -- 1. Croatia : "just so they could go to heaven" -- 2. Old Serbia and Albania : Balkan "West Bank" -- 3. Macedonia : "a hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars" -- 4. The white city and its prophet -- pt. 2. Romania : Latin passion play -- 5. Athenee Palace, Bucharest -- 6. The Danube's bitter end -- 7. Moldavia : "conditioned to hate" -- 8. The land beyond Dracula's castle : the painted monasteries of Bucovina -- 9. Transylvanian voices -- 10. Transylvanian tale : the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin -- 11. Last glimpses : Timisoara and Bucharest -- pt. 3. Bulgaria : tales from communist Byzantium -- 12. "The warmth of each other's bodies" -- 13. The price of friendship -- 14. The bad and the good -- pt. 4. Greece : western mistress, eastern bride -- 15. Farewell to Salonika -- 16. "Teach me, Zorba : teach me to dance!" -- 17. The secret history -- Epilogue : the road to Adrianople.
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"This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power."--Jacket.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-Travel-- Balkan Peninsula.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-Travel-- Balkan Peninsula.
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Travel.
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Balkan Peninsula, Description and travel.
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Balkan Peninsula, History.
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Balkan Peninsula, Description and travel.
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Balkan Peninsula, History, 20th century.
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Balkan Peninsula.
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Balkanhalvön, reseskildringar.
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Balkanhalvön, historia.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.6
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DR16.K36 2005
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