{"product_id":"nationalism-and-yugoslavia-pieter-troch-9781780767536","title":"Nationalism and Yugoslavia: Education, Yugoslavism and the Balkans Before World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreated after World War I, 'Yugoslavia' was a combination of ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse but connected South Slav peoples - Slovenes, Croats and Serbs but also Bosnian Muslims, Macedonians, and Montenegrins - in addition to non-Slav minorities. The Great Powers and the country's intellectual and political elites believed that a coherent identity could be formed in which the different South Slav groups in the state could identify with a single Balkan Yugoslav identity. Pieter Troch draws on previously unpublished sources from the domain of education to show how the state's nationalities policy initially allowed for a flexible and inclusive Yugoslav nationhood, and how that system was slowly replaced with a more domineering and rigid 'top-down' nationalism during the dictatorship of King Alexander I - who banned political parties and coded a strongly politicised Yugoslav national identity. As Yugoslav society became increasingly split between the 'pro-Yugoslav' central regime and 'anti-Yugoslav' opposition, the seeds were sown for the failure of the Yugoslav idea.\u003cbr\u003eNationalism and Yugoslavia provides a valuable new insight into the complexities of pre-war Yugoslavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pieter Troch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780767536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780767536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Pieter Troch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153828032767,"sku":"9781780767536","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05ba0bc5-2d42-421e-9b25-c98df431a0ca.jpg?v=1770786100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nationalism-and-yugoslavia-pieter-troch-9781780767536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}