Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe

Overview

Encompassing the period from the Neolithic era to the troubled present, this book studies the peoples, societies, and cultures of the area situated between the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Black Sea in the east, between the Alpine region and Danube basin in the north and the Aegean Sea in the south.

Approach

This is not a conventional history of the Balkans. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and linguistics as well as history, the author has attempted a "total history" that integrates as many as possible of the avenues and categories of the Balkan experience.