Albanians
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Although the focus of this book is Kosovo, it is also about the people of the Western Balkans, especially the Albanians and the Serbs, who do not fit neatly into the boundaries of the ...
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Building
Stathis N. Kalyvas
in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How was the new state built?
Becoming independent was the easy part. The leaders of the new state faced a daunting task. They sought to create a modern European state in a rather ...
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Creating History
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Every nation has a story, its myths about history and ancestry. In the Serbian story Kosovo looms large. Serbs like to hark back to the Middle Ages as a high point in their past and thus ...
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Emergence
Stathis N. Kalyvas
in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did modern Greece come into being?
Most people see modern Greece as a successor state of ancient Greece and the last chapter in a long history going back three thousand years. ...
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Family Secrets
Ilan Stavans
in Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is la familia, the Latino family closely knit?
Yes, members of the Latino family tend to see themselves as a nucleus of support. While Latino families ...
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From Dardania to Yugoslavia
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
For as long as anyone can remember, the history of Kosovo has been a battlefield pitting Serbs against Albanians. Each believes different things because each has been taught different ...
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From the Golden age to the Memorandum
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Today the 1970s are seen by Kosovo Albanians as a golden age. They were freer than they had ever been in Yugoslavia and better educated and in better health than they had ever been in the ...
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Fusión Latina
Ilan Stavans
in Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is fusión latina?
Spanish-language TV and radio have been instrumental in the forging of a Latino identity—what is called “fusión latina.” No other ...
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Future
Stathis N. Kalyvas
in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the seven boom-bust-bailout cycles of Greek history?
Looking back at the historical trajectory of modern Greece, it is possible to discern a succession of seven major ...
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The Great Crisis
Stathis N. Kalyvas
in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did Greece go from economic boom to bust?
Things in Greece looked ideal in 2008. By most indices of economic and human development, the country was in an enviable position. It ...
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Kosovo after 1999
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
It is impossible to underestimate the chaos of Kosovo in the wake of the war. Albanians streamed back in and Serbs fled, or were ethnically cleansed, from their homes and villages. Some ...
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Kosovo and the Region
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Sometimes on the graves of Kosovo Albanian fighters, on Albanian Internet sites, and elsewhere you see an unfamiliar map, one that engulfs and dwarfs Kosovo. It is Greater or, as Albanians ...
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Kosovo and the World
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Kosovo is small. Its territory covers 6,759 square miles (10,887 square kilometers). By way of comparison, Connecticut is 8,920 square miles (14,356 square kilometers), and Wales is 12,911 ...
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Kosovo in Yugoslavia
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The reconquest was brutal. Serbian forces returning to Kosovo remembered the treatment they had received at the hands of Albanians during their retreat in 1915 and Albanians remembered ...
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The Legacy of Colonization
Ilan Stavans
in Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is the colonial period for the United States the same as for Latinos?
No, it isn’t. Historically, the colonial period in the United States is the time between the arrival of the ...
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March 2004 and the Ahtisaari Plan
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The UN years can be divided neatly in two: before March 17, 2004, and after. Beginning in December 2003, the major plank of UNMIK and international policy was called Standards before ...
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The Milošević-Rugova Years
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Slobodan Milošević was the right man (or the wrong one, of course) in the right place at the right time. He was born in 1941 to Montenegrin parents in Požarevac, close to Belgrade. When ...
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Nomenclature
Ilan Stavans
in Latinos in the United States: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did the term “Latino” come about?
An attempt at understanding the essential role Latinos play in America needs to start with a basic etymological discussion. The term “Latino” ...
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Not the Last Chapter: Independence
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Kosovo’s Albanians declared independence on February 17, 2008. On the eve, one European diplomat who had played a key role in developments in Kosovo over the past couple of years sighed ...
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Serbs
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Throughout history the map of Serbia has grown, shrunk, disappeared, and reappeared—several times. Sometimes Kosovo has been part of Serbia, sometimes not. Let’s look at the last hundred ...
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