Kosovo: A Short History

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History comes a 'magisterial work of history' TLS KOSOVO Contents Acknowledgements A note on names and pronunciations Maps Preface to the second edition Introduction 1 Orientation: places, names and peoples 2 Origins: Serbs, Albanians and Vlachs 3 Medieval Kosovo before Prince Lazar: 850s-1380s 4 The Battle and the Myth 5 The last years of Medieval Serbian Kosovo: 1389-1455 6 Early Ottoman Kosovo: 1450s-1580s 7 War, rebellion and religious life: 1580s-1680s 8 The Austrian invasion and the ‘Great Migration’ of the Serbs: 1689-1690 9 Recovery and decline: 1690-1817 10 Reform and resistance: 1817-1878 11 Kosovo’s other minorities: Vlachs, Gypsies, Turks, Jews and Circassians 12 From the League of Prizren to the Young Turk revolution: 1878-1908 13 The great rebellions, the Serbian conquest and the First World War: 1908-1918 14 Kaçaks and colonists: 1918—1941 15 Occupied Kosovo in the Second World War: 1941-1945 16 Kosovo under Tito: 1945—1980 17 Kosovo after the death of Tito: 1981—1997 Notes List of manuscripts Bibliography Index