Balkan Holocausts? (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis) - Softcover

MacDonald, David Bruce

9780719064678: Balkan Holocausts? (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719064678 ISBN 13: 9780719064678

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2002

Comparing and contrasting Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, this text analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. There is a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the Internet, detailing how and why the Internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a theme-by-theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals.

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Review:

"�T�he author has succeeded in exploring his subject in a way which is both lively and genuinely informative. ... extremely well written, based on a wide range of relevant sources and sensible and generally persuasive in its judgements ... His discussion of the debate about the Holocaust is sophisticated and based on a thorough knowledge of the relevant debates." -- James Mayall, Cambridge University
"[T]he author has succeeded in exploring his subject in a way which is both lively and genuinely informative. ... extremely well written, based on a wide range of relevant sources and sensible and generally persuasive in its judgements ... His discussion of the debate about the Holocaust is sophisticated and based on a thorough knowledge of the relevant debates." -- James Mayall, Cambridge University

About the Author:

David Bruce Macdonald is Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand

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