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Andrew Hammond

The Debated Lands

British and American Representations of the Balkans

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The negative connotations of the word balkanization neatly sum up current attitudes to this maligned region. In The Debated Lands, Andrew Hammond studies hundreds of examples of travel writing to chart the complex history of British and American conceptualizations of the Balkans. Hammond begins with the imperially influenced discourses of the eighteenth century, continues with the sudden allegiances of World War I, observes the ambivalent mixture of sympathy and disappointment that characterized the cold war, and reveals the return to vilification in the 1990s. Comprehensively documenting centuries of criticism and fear, Hammond's study of th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7083-1965-9
  • EAN: 9780708319659
  • Produktnummer: 2816046
  • Verlag: University of Wales Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm x D0.0 cm
  • Abbildungen: No
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Andrew Hammond is a Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, and part-time Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glamorgan. He has a Ph.D in British and American Travel Writing and has edited several books on Balkan and Cold War literature in addition to contributing to numerous edited volumes on similar themes.

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