A Concise History of Serbia

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A Concise History of Serbia – Dejan Đokić
Contents
	Figures
	Maps
	Tables
	Boxes
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Introduction
	Where is Serbia?
	Historical Legacies
	Culture and Society
	How Unique is Serbian History?
	When is Serbia?
1. Migration
	Prehistory
	Slavs and Avars
	Origins of the Serbs
	The Formation of the First Serbs/South Slav Polities
	Spread of Christianity
	The Decline of ‘Baptized Serbia’ and the Rise of Duklja/Zeta
2. Empire (c. 1170–1459)
	Raška
	The Kingdom and the Church
	Serbia’s Byzantine Turn?
	The Serb–Greek Empire
	The Last Emperor and New Pretenders
	The Battle of Kosovo, 1389
	The Despotate
	Economy in Late Medieval Serbia
	The Fall of Smederevo
3. Borderland (1450–1800)
	The Ottoman Conquest
	‘Serbia’ in Western Imagination
	Military Border
	Conversion to Islam
	Society and Economy
	Brigands and Rebels
	Restoration of the Peć Patriarchate
	The Serbs and European Wars, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
	The Great Migration
	Habsburg Serb Society
	New Migrations and the Abolition of the Patriarchate
	Enlightenment
4. Revolution (1788–1858)
	Fateful Encounters
	The First Serbian Uprising, 1804–13
	Language of the Nation
	The Second Serbian Uprising, 1815–30
	Autonomous Principality
	The Fall of Prince Miloš
	Defenders of the Constitution
	A Society Transformed
	The Serbs and the 1848 Revolution
	The St Andrew’s Assembly
5. Independence (1860–1914)
	Ottoman Departures
	Serbia’s Balkan Alliances
	Nascent ‘Europeanization’
	Socialists and Radicals
	The Eastern Crisis
	Party Politics
	Nation, Society and Economy
	A Critical Decade, 1903–14
6. War and Interwar (1914–1944)
	The Sarajevo Assassination and the July Crisis
	Between Serbia and Yugoslavia
	The Corfu Declaration
	From Salonica to Belgrade
	The Serb–Croat–Slovene Kingdom
	Society, Economy, Culture
	Serb–Croat Contests and Compromises
	The Second World War: Partition, Resistance, Collaboration
	The Holocaust in Occupied Serbia
	Serb Civil War
7. Federation to Fragmentation (1945–1990)
	Federal Serbia in Federal Yugoslavia
	The Tito–Stalin Split and the Djilas Affair
	Non-alignment
	Society and Culture
	The Return of the ‘National Question’
	The Death of Tito – and After
	Milošević’s ‘Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution’
8. Ruin and Recovery (after 1990)
	Serbia in Transition
	The Serbs and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia
	The War in Slovenia, 1991
	The Croat–Serb War, 1991–95
	The Bosnian Wars, 1992–95
	Serbia’s Society and Economy in the 1990s
	The Battle for Kosovo, 1998–99
	The Fall of Milošević
	Hope and Disillusionment, 2000–2012
	Serbia in a Populist World, 2012–22
Further Reading
Index