- Paperback: 261 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (Jan 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 079144824X
- ISBN-13: 978-0791448243
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 417 g
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Uses the history of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav border to examine how representations of difference have affected the politics of sovereignty during the twentieth century.
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Focusing on the history of the "problem of Trieste" and the Italo-Yugoslav border, Glenda Sluga provides a framework for writing the history of places from a perspective sensitive to the politics of identity--whether national, ethnic, or gender. For most of this century, Trieste, a port city on the northeastern Adriatic, has been at the center of key European cultural and political questions. Scholars have commonly attributed Trieste's turbulent past to the intrinsic differences between local Italian and Slav populations. Ways of knowing Trieste and Triestines, and the ways in which that population could know itself, have been couched in narratives that reiterate the antithetical differences between Slav Eastern/Balkan Europeans and Italian Western Europeans, and constitute the East as the West's lesser "other."
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An original and critical perspective, Aug 1 2004
By Tony - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugo: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (Hardcover)
Participants in historical events are often the worst commentators on them. I think that this is a first-rate piece of historical research putting into question the conventional wisdom, including that of Italian fascists whose own atrocities in and around Trieste finally are receiving the attention they deserve. This is not to release the Titoists from their responsibility. But it does remind us who started the upheaval in the region and whyy it was Italian fascism and the nature of its defeat and not "Communist aggression" that visited such disasters on the city of Trieste and its hinterland.
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Advocacy, Not History, Aug 2 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Y: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (Paperback)
I "lived" through much of the period and conditions of her subject. I was stationed in Trieste during the period 1946-1947 with the U.S. Army. I am aware of the strife which she tends to view from only one side, i.e.,the Communist Jugoslav faction. One only has to compare her rejection of the known facts of the "Forty Days" (the period from May 1, 1945 to June 12, 1945 when the Jugoslav Army and the Jugoslav OZNA controlled the city) as she passes off Basovizza (site of mass burials of Italians) as trivial!Ms Sluga is an advocate, not an historian!
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