ebooks The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America by Lawrence J. McCaffrey in History

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The third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes three new chapters and a new epilogue; as well as revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet; a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene; traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980; arguing that; whatever the complications entailed in the national question; the final crisis was triggered by economic deterioration; shaped by the federal system itself; and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power -- either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an ”ethnically cleansed” Greater Serbia. The book sheds light on the contributions made by Croatian naivete and Western diplomatic bungling to the tragedy in Bosnia; discusses the course of the Serbian Insurrectionary War in both Croatia and Bosnia; and devotes a chapter to examining the separate paths of Slovenia and Macedonia; before turning to an assessment of the record in post-Dayton Bosnia and Serb Albanian frictions in Kosovë during 1989-98. Chapters on the primary religious associations and on the rock scene help to set the political developments in perspective. With her detailed knowledge of the organic connections between politics; culture; and religion; Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.