Hvar in the Modern Age Identity and Change in Southeast Europe
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Biografisk notat
Florian Bieber is Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He has held the Luigi Einaudi Chair at Cornell University, USA, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute at NYU and London School of Economics, UK. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Nationalities Papers and is Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). His teaching and research focuses on nationalism, ethnic conflict, inter-ethnic relations and peace building. Florian is the author or editor of several books, including Debating Nationalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and The Rise of Authoritarianism in the Western Balkans (2019).Hvar in the Modern Age takes you on a sailing voyage to the island that mirrored states, empires, nationalities, wars, and extremes. The scents of rosemary, lavender, olives, sardines and wine are felt across the centuries of hardship, convolution, and integration. From medieval travellers to contemporary tourists, you are also invited on this magnificent journey into the heart of Adriatic.
Mateo Bratanic, Associate Professor, University of Zadar, Croatia
In this open access book, Florian Bieber traces the history of the island of Hvar during the 19th and 20th centuries. Bieber uses Hvar as a novel lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states and identity, tourism and the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea and the region of southeast Europe. The book shows how ordinary people dealt with the challenges of the rise of nations, as well as transnational connections such migration and tourism and the changing of empires and states. Based on a wealth of archival materials from Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, the UK and the USA, Hvar in the Modern Age also reveals the complexities of the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Yugoslavia from a bottom-up perspective and the realities and challenges of island life in southeast Europe during the modern period.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
List of Images and Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Of Islands
2. From Antiquity to the Decline of Venice
3. Benign Neglect? Habsburg Rule
4. Competing Nation States
5. The Socialist Experiment
6. Croatia after Independence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index