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The Great Cauldron - A History of Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)
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The Great Cauldron - A History of Southeastern Europe (Hardcover)
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A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the
present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas,
and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by
turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it
has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions.
Combining deep insight with narrative flair, The Great Cauldron
invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse
region as essential to the story of global Europe. Marie-Janine
Calic reveals the many ways in which southeastern Europe's position
at the crossroads of East and West shaped continental and global
developments. The nascent merchant capitalism of the Mediterranean
world helped the Balkan knights fight the Ottomans in the fifteenth
century. The deep pull of nationalism led a young Serbian bookworm
to spark the conflagration of World War I. The late twentieth
century saw political Islam spread like wildfire in a region where
Christians and Muslims had long lived side by side. Along with
vivid snapshots of revealing moments in time, including Kruje in
1450 and Sarajevo in 1984, Calic introduces fascinating figures
rarely found in standard European histories. We meet the Greek
merchant and poet Rhigas Velestinlis, whose revolutionary pamphlet
called for a general uprising against Ottoman tyranny in 1797. And
the Croatian bishop Ivan Dominik Stratiko, who argued passionately
for equality of the sexes and whose success with women astonished
even his friend Casanova. Calic's ambitious reappraisal expands and
deepens our understanding of the ever-changing mixture of peoples,
faiths, and civilizations in this much-neglected nexus of empire.
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