Yugoslavia as History is the first book to examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of its history. This new edition of John Lampe's accessible and authoritative history devotes a full new chapter to the tragic ethnic wars that have followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Kosovo. John Lampe concentrates on the connection, real and imagined, between these conflicts and the experience of the successor states, the two Yugoslavias and their predecessors. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

John Lampe is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

List of plates	p. x
List of maps	p. xi
List of tables	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface to the second edition	p. xvii
Note on pronunciation	p. xx
Introduction: The search for viability	p. 1
1 Empires and fragmented borderlands, 800-1800	p. 9
Mountains first, water last	p. 10
Brief native states, long remembered	p. 14
Varieties of Ottoman rule	p. 20
Varieties of Habsburg rule	p. 27
Exceptions to imperial fragmentation	p. 33
2 Unifying aspirations and rural resistance, 1804-1903	p. 39
From Illyrian provinces to Yugoslav idea, 1806-1860	p. 41
Serbia as a nineteenth-century nation-state	p. 46
Montenegro as mini-state	p. 57
Croatian and South Slav ideas in the Habsburg lands, 1860-1900	p. 58
Bosnia's transition from Ottoman to Austro-Hungarian rule	p. 65
Dalmatia and Slovenia as Yugoslav outposts	p. 69
3 New divisions, Yugoslav ties, and Balkan Wars, 1903-1914	p. 71
Fragmented growth and party politics in the Habsburg lands	p. 75
Serbia's rising reputation and the Bosnian crisis of 1908	p. 83
Balkan Wars and the new Yugoslav prospects, 1912-1914	p. 91
4 The First World War and the first Yugoslavia, 1914-1921	p. 101
Serbia and the Yugoslav Committee, 1914-1917	p. 102
Wartime regimes from Slovenia to Serbia	p. 106
National Council in Zagreb and unification in Belgrade	p. 110
Western policy and border disputes	p. 113
Economic obstacles to political unification	p. 117
Divisive elections for a unitary constitution	p. 121
5 Parliamentary kingdom, 1921-1928	p. 129
Prewar politicians, new parties, and the Vidovdan framework, 1921-1926	p. 130
Cultural connections and economic disjunctures	p. 145
Hostile neighbors and distant allies	p. 154
Fatal intersections, 1927-1928	p. 158
6 Authoritarian kingdom, 1929-1941	p. 163
Royal dictatorship, 1929-1934	p. 164
Stojadiovic and the royal regency, 1935-1938	p. 176
Balance sheet for the first Yugoslavia, 1921-1939	p. 186
From Serb Croat Sporazum to Tripartite Pact, 1939-1941	p. 194
7 World war and civil war, 1941-1945	p. 201
The destruction of the first Yugoslavia	p. 201
The Independent State of Croatia (NDH), occupation regimes, and active opposition, 1941-1942	p. 210
Communist advantages, 1943-1944	p. 218
Consolidating Communist power, 1945	p. 226
8 Founding the second Yugoslavia, 1946-1953	p. 233
Consolidating power under the 1946 constitution	p. 234
Setbacks and the Tito Stalin split, 1947-1949	p. 241
First steps down the Yugoslav road	p. 255
9 Tito's Yugoslavia ascending, 1954-1967	p. 265
Balancing between East and West	p. 267
Western markets and self-managed enterprises, 1954-1962	p. 276
Market reform and the fall of Rankovic	p. 284
10 Tito's Yugoslavia descending, 1968-1988	p. 299
Opposition comes into the open, 1968-1969	p. 300
From the Croatian crisis to the 1974 constitution	p. 305
From half-market to contractual economy	p. 315
Foreign policy and the debt crisis, 1979-1985	p. 321
The failure of federal leadership and economic retreat, 1986-1988	p. 327
11 Ethnic politics and the end of Yugoslavia	p. 332
Social strains and regional relations	p. 333
New leaders and new politics	p. 345
Fatal intersections, 1989-1991	p. 352
12 Ethnic wars and successor states, 1991-1999	p. 365
Wars for succession, 1991-1995	p. 369
Wartime politics in Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro	p. 381
Postwar politics in Slovenia and Macedonia	p. 391
Successor economies and Yugoslavia's legacy	p. 397
Kosovo/Kosova: war after all	p. 406
Notes	p. 416
Selected further reading (in English and German)	p. 458
Index	p. 468

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