This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

Autorentext

David A. Norris taught Serbian and Croatian Studies at the University of Nottingham for many years. He has published widely on modern Serbian culture and literature and has also authored language textbooks. His books have been translated into German, Polish and Serbian.

Klappentext

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Society and Culture in the Middle Ages 2. The Serbian Enlightenment 3. The Long Revolution (1804-1842) 4. The Kaleidoscope of Modernization (1842-1903) 5. Revising Serbia's Cultural Heritage (1903-1918) 6. Serbia in Royalist Yugoslavia (1918-1945) 7. Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991) 8. Serbia in Transition