Author: Ivo Andric
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: novel, chronicle, bosnian
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-09-07
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1559702362
ISBN-13: 9781559702362

Set in the Napoleonic era in the town of Travnik, the book presents the power struggles within the region.

Author: Francine Friedman
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: nation, denial, muslims, bosnian
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-03-29
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0813320968
ISBN-13: 9780813320960

Although their plight now dominates television news worldwide, the Bosnian Muslims were until recently virtually unknown outside of Yugoslavia. Who are these people? Why are they the focus of their former neighbors’ rage? What role did they play in Yugoslavia before they became the victims of ethnic cleansing? Why has Bosnia-Hercegovina, once a model of ethnic tolerance and multicultural harmony, suddenly exploded into ethnic violence?Focusing on these questions, Friedman provides a comprehensive study of this national group whose plight has riveted governments, the press, and the public ali

Author: Samira Puskar
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, chicagoland, americans, bosnian
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738551260
ISBN-13: 9780738551265

The first Bosnians settled in Chicagoland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, joining other immigrants seeking better opportunities and better lives. As the former Yugoslavia continued to find its identity as a nation over the last century, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina sought stability and new beginnings in the city of Chicago--many intending to return to their homeland. Today as manyas 70,000 Bosnians and their descendants live in the Chicago area, representing different faiths, backgrounds, and motivations for making America their new home. Bosnian Americans of Chicagoland exa

Author: Ronelle Alexander
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: sociolinguistic, commentary, grammar, serbian, croatian, bosnian
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0299211940
ISBN-13: 9780299211943

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar analyzes and clarifies the complex, dynamic language situation in the former Yugoslavia. Addressing squarely the issues connected with the splintering of Serbo-Croatian into component languages, this volume provides teachers and learners with practical solutions and highlights the differences among the languages as well as the communicative core that they all share. The first book to cover all three components of the post-Yugoslav linguistic environment, this reference manual features: · Thorough presentation of the grammar common to Bosnian, Croatian,

Author: Barbara Franz
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: states, degolyer, library, series, united, austria, unwanted, bosnian, refugees, uprooted
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2005-02-16
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 158544412X
ISBN-13: 9781585444120