Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbiaand the Crimean War

The Institute for Balkan Studies has recently brought out the English edition of the book of its member Čedomir Antić Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbiaand the Crimean War. The author of the preface, Professor Winfried Baumgart, an eminent historian of the Crimean War, has observed that this is the first monograph in a European language to give an account of Serbia’s participation in European politics on the eve and in the wake of this war. Antić’s book reinterprets the role of Great Britain and France in Serbia’s history in the 1850s and offers new sources for the study of the ideas of reforming Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. In this edition of his book Antić offers fresh data for the biography of the controversial Thomas Fonblanque, Great Britain’s diplomatic representative in Serbia for nearly twenty years.