Barbara Jelavich's Books

This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula.

An overview of the Austria's recent history written for the general reader and the student.

Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day.

This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, focusing particularly on Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia since 1945.

A comprehensive history of Russo-British relations at the height of the imperial age, from Peter the Great to the Triple Entente.

This highly readable and thoroughly researched volume offers an excellent account of the development of seven Balkan peoples during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries. Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich have brought their rich knowledge of the Albanians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Greeks, Romanians, Serbians, and Slovenes to bear on every aspect of the area’s history--political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural. It took more than a century after the first Balkan uprising, that of the Serbians in 1804, for the Balkan people to free themselves from Ottoman and Habsburg rule. The Serbians and the Greeks were the first to do so; the Albanians, the Croatians, and the Slovenes the last. For each people the national revival took its own form and independence was achieved in its own way. The authors explore the contrasts and similarities among the peoples, within the context of the Ottoman Empire and Europe.

Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). A significant landmark as one of Germany's first major sound films, it is known primarily for launching Marlene Dietrich into Hollywood stardom and for initiating the mythic pairing of the Austrian-born American director von Sternberg with the star performer Dietrich. This fascinating cultural history of The Blue Angel provides a new interpretive framework with which to approach this classic Weimar film and suggests that discourses on mass and high culture are integral to the film's thematic and narrative structure. These discourses surface above all in the relationship between the two main characters, the cabaret entertainer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and the high school teacher Immanuel Rath (one-time Oscar winner Emil Jannings). In addition to offering insight into some of the major debates that informed the Weimar Republic, this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany. Barbara Kosta thus also looks at Dietrich as a contemporary cultural icon and at her symbolic value since German unification and at Lola Lola's various "incarnations.

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An examination of the difficult Russian-Rumanian relationship as it developed during the nineteenth century.

An overview of the Austria's recent history written for the general reader and the student.

This book examines the reason for the Russian involvement in the Balkan peninsula.

Book's by Barbara Jelavich

Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806-1914

Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806-1914

Modern Austria

Modern Austria

History of the Balkans: Volume 1

History of the Balkans: Volume 1

History of the Balkans: Volume 2

History of the Balkans: Volume 2

The First Cold War

The First Cold War

The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

Willing Seduction

Willing Seduction

In the Land of Orpheus

In the Land of Orpheus

The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

Russia and the Formation of the Romanian National State, 1821-1878

Russia and the Formation of the Romanian National State, 1821-1878

Modern Austria

Modern Austria

Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806-1914

Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806-1914

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