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Croatia Paperback – 24 Nov 1999

by Ivo Goldstein (Author)

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When the Roman Empire split in the 4th century AD into the Western and Eastern empires, the boundary between the two stretched from the Montenegrin coast up the river Drina to the confluence of the Slava and the Danube and then further north. This boundary has remained virtually unchanged for 1500 years: the European, Catholic west and the Orthodox east meet on Slav territory. With Croatia having become an independent state in the 1990s, this text traces the history of the region and its people. It is divided into major sections on: the early medieval Croatian state (until 1101); the periods of union with Hungary (1102-1526) and with Austria (1526-1918); incorporation in Yugoslavia (1918-91); and the creation of a sovereign state.

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Paperback: 292 pages
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (24 November 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1850655251
ISBN-13: 978-1850655251
Package Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 358 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 108,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in Books > History > Europe > Croatia
- #295 in Books > History > Europe > Eastern
- #237177 in Books > Textbooks & Study Guides

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Ivo Goldstein is a Croatian historian. He received his PhD in history at the University of Zagreb. Since 2001 he is a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.

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Goldstein, a professor at the University of Zagreb, wrote this history specifically to be translated for non-Croatian readers. Therefore its brevity must be considered a virtue, as most readers would not have the patience nor the interest to wade through hundreds of pages on medieval Balkan history. However, it does not provide anything more than a series of dates and vaguely connected events until hitting its stride in the 20th century. Left largely untold are the fascinating stories of Croatia's more distant past. Tomislav, the first Croatian king who ushered in early westernizing influences merits but six vague lines, while Jelacic, the tragic nineteenth-century hero gets more attention but Goldstein fails to describe either his military campaigns or the fascinating story of his decline and death. Readers who know nothing of Croatia will find little in the first hundred pages to capture their attention, and readers with some background will find nothing new to pique their interest.
The chapters on the twentieth century are the strongest. The spare descriptions of World War II, post-war politics, and the recent wars in Croatia and Bosnia are clear and unclouded by gratuitous political partisanship. A passage (p.187) debunking the popular myth that Tito somehow 'solved' Yugoslavia's ethnic problems is particularly insightful. Goldstein is clearly a Croatian patriot, but he is no nationalist and no apologist for Tudjman's corrupt and hateful brand of politics. He criticizes Tudjman and Milosevic and the Krajina Serbs equally. The book would be stronger had the first hundred pages been reduced to a quick overview, and the subsequent chapters on the 20th century expanded and strengthened.
The book is a good one, more pointed and less partisan than Marcus Tanner's. The maps are generally good (a county chart showing Serb minority populations in 1991, and a map explaining Operation Storm are excellent), with the exception that there is no map on the Bosnian war, although there is a chapter devoted to it. The translation is generally strong, but the book is filled with typos and editorial oversights ("till" to mean "until", awkward sentences, and frequent misspellings). The strength of this history is its balance, the weakness is its lack of anecdote or interesting color.

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As balanced as can be

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I was glad to read this book and given the negative comments from (unsurpisingly) a Croatian reviewer, I can see why Croats and Serbs never get along. Rarely do I meet Croats or Serbs who go beyond being apologists for their respective nations when talking about Serbo-Croatian relations.

Goldstein, however, examines Croatian history quite fairly for the most part and more to the point doesn't fall into the trap of placing Croats on a higher plane than neighbouring Serbs. It is satifying to read something by a historian who doesn't sink to the level of a chauvanist as many intellectuals from the Balkans do.

His chapter on Croatia's meddling/warring in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 is illuminating and reminds me that most Croats hardly deserve the "angels' halos" that they still crave when trying to "discuss" (read: justify) their conduct towards their neighbours. In addition, it is indeed refreshing to see that Goldstein pulls no punches in presenting less attractive aspects of President Tudjman's rule in spite of Tudjman's suitability in countering the aggresive nationalism emnating from President Milosevic's office in Belgrade.

Nevertheless, I agree with the reviewer who dislikes the dominance of coverage about the 20th century. Goldstein doesn't go into as much detail about the earlier periods which forced me to consult books about Hungarian, Ottoman or Venetian history when I wanted to get some more information about Croatian history during the Middle Ages and Renaissance (when Croats were ruled by those powers).

Bottom line: This book is as good as it gets for Croatian history for now. It's too bad that I haven't come across a similar work on Serbian history. Like the Croats, I'm sure that the Serbs are unjustified in trying to portray themselves as eternal victims who must take revenge for past defeats and real/imagined injustices. Goldstein's work should be a good kick-in-the-rear for qualified Croatian and Serbian historians to be brave enough not to let their thinking be coloured by prejudices about Croatian impudence or Serbian aggresion. They must begin crowding out the field of Croatian and Serbian historigraphy which is currently littered with works by journalists and other non-historians whose works provide fodder for propagandists and chauvanists.

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