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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Finkielkraut, Alain. Dispatches from the Balkan War and other writings. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607370454 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alain Finkielkraut |
ISBN: | 0803220030 9780803220034 |
OCLC Number: | 40830145 |
Notes: | "Parts 1 and 2 of this book were originally published as "Comment peut-on être Croate?"--Preface. |
Description: | xxxi, 228 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: French Intellectuals and the War in the Former Yugoslavia -- How Can One Be Croatian?: The Return of Ideology -- Let's Not Congratulate Ourselves -- History's Poor Relatives -- "I Am the Member of an Ancient Tribe ..." -- Indifferent Memory -- How Can One Be Croatian?: Journal of a Disaster -- A Death Announcement 9 July 1991 -- Words and War 4 October 1991 -- The President Gives a History Lesson 12 December 1991 -- "Ave Europa, Morituri Te Salutant" 10 December 1991 -- A Dismissal of Charges 25 April 1992 -- Sarajevo: Crimes against Humanity 10 May 1992 -- Past-Present 27 May 1992 -- Sarajevo Twenty Days after Francois Mitterrand 21 July 1992 -- The Boat Is Full 31 July 1992 -- Bastards and Victims 3 August 1992 -- Insults and Abandonment 9 August 1992 -- Let's Not Add War to War 18 August 1992 -- The French Exception 1 September 1992 -- What Is a Nation?--Second Episode September 1992 -- "If This Is a Man ..." 15 September 1992 -- The Perfect Crime 15 October 1992 -- Writings on the Balkan Conflict, 1993-96 -- The Demands of the Day 16 December 1992 -- Revisionism 15 January 1993 -- The Peacemakers: The Dream of Peace without Intervention Ends Up Prolonging the War 3 February 1993 -- Two Europes February 1993 -- The Inadmissible Frontier 18 March 1993 -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Without Shame 21 May 1993 -- The Injunction of Buchenwald 15 December 1993 -- Vukovar, Sarajevo: Hitler's Posthumous Victory 1993 -- The Crime of Being Born: Europe, Nations, War February 1994 -- Intellectuals, Politics, and War 16 September 1994. |
Series Title: | European horizons. |
Responsibility: | Alain Finkielkraut ; translated by Peter S. Rogers and Richard Golsan ; introduction and chronology by Richard Golsan. |
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Abstract:
Presents a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, Alain Finkielkraut has largely supported the Croatian struggles for sovereignty. He argues against an array of outmoded views of the Balkan region and its political and cultural conditions.
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