Collection of papers by Dr. Dimitrije Đorđević "Essays in Balkan History"

It is with particular pleasure that we would like to inform that on the occasion of the Institute's 90th anniversary, a collection of papers by Dr. Dimitrije Đorđević titled Essays in Balkan History has been published.
Dimitrije Đorđević (1922-2009) is one of the most important Serbian and Serbian-American historians who dealt with the history of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was employed at the Historical Institute and the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA. In 1970, he became a full professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the United States of America.
Dimitrije Đorđević was an internationally recognized researcher, author and co-author of fourteen books that were translated into several major world languages, as well as a precious witness of a time. Professor Đorđević's family bequeathed his library to the Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA.

 

From the conversation of the editor, Dr. Vojislava G. Pavlovic:

"Even though he never explicitly declared that his approach was a comparative one, on one occasion he said that his ”works on the Balkan history have tried to reveal the comparative evolution of the Balkan nations”. Moreover, his papers selected for publication in this volume show that his vision of the Balkans from the late 18th to the early
20th century was created while analysing, thus necessary comparing, the same phenomena in different parts of the Balkans while measuring them against the yardstick of their European role model. The variety and complexity of the subjects treated in this volume in a comparative perspective provide justification for more accurate and telling title of this volume: a Comparative History of the Balkans."