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Population Exchange in Greek Macedonia: the Rural Settlement of Refugees 1922-1930 By Elisabeth Kontogiorgi Clarendon Press (Oxford) 2006 Reviewed by Melina Grizo* Over a decade ago, an anthropological study of Greek Macedonia conducted by scholar Anastasia Karakasidou resulted in violent reactions from Greek nationalists, and also generated great interest among the community of Balkan researchers. [...]

Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro By Elizabeth Roberts Cornell University Press (2007), 521 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Although released just in 2007, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro comes from a much older school of scholarship. With this much needed work, former diplomat Elizabeth Roberts has produced [...]

Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students By Christina E. Kramer University of Wisconsin Press, 2nd edition (2003), 530 pp., some illustrations Reviewed by Christopher Deliso The year 2008 was declared the €šÃ„òYear of the Macedonian language’s by the government in Skopje, a proclamation that has been echoed by the far-flung Macedonian diaspora in [...]

Television, Power, and the Public in Russia By Ellen Mickiewicz Cambridge University Press (2008), 220 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Since the days of the Soviet Union, the role of the media in shaping public opinion in Russia has been continuously scrutinized by foreign observers. This year, a series of events ranging from the transfer [...]

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese By Patrick Leigh Fermor John Murray, London (2004) 320 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso 2008 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, considered one of the most important travelogues of the 20th century by many critics. Although the [...]

A Nation at Bay: What an American Woman Saw and Did in Suffering Serbia By Ruth S. Farnam, over 30 B/W photos Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1918), 229 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso This remarkable first-hand account of the First World War in the Balkans, available infrequently and only in its original 1918 printing, is the passionately [...]

Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 by Paul Stephenson Cambridge University Press (2000), 352 pp., 22 maps and tables Reviewed by Christopher Deliso This is one of the most important contemporary books for the history of the Byzantine Balkans. It creates a thoroughly new picture of the social, economic and [...]

Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad By John R. Schindler Zenith Press (2007), 368 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Note: Owing to length, the following review is being published in two parts. Part one appeared on March 22, 2008. Part two (March 29, 2008) appears below. Deception and Deceit: The Media [...]

Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad By John R. Schindler Zenith Press (2007), 368 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Note: Owing to length, the following review is being published in two parts. Part one, which follows below, appears on March 22, 2008. Part two will appear on March 29, 2008. Unholy [...]

The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914 By John D. Treadway Purdue University Press (1983), 349 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso In the preface to this helpful study of Montenegrin diplomacy in the pre-WWI era, author John D. Treadway cites Greek-Canadian historian L.S. Stavrianos: “the role of Montenegro in South Slav and general [...]