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La Serbie et la France. Une alliance atypique: les relations politiques, économiques et culturelles 1870–1940 is the latest publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies. Under the editorship of Dušan T. Bataković and contributed by twenty-five Serbian and French historians and historians of art and literature, the collection sheds light on all major aspects of Serbo-French relations in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. This atypical alliance between the Principality, later Kingdom, of Serbia and France, the main source of political doctrines and revolutionary movements in 19th-century Europe, was never made formal, nor were its terms ever defined, but its genuineness overcame all trials and tribulations and was crowned in the Great War, when the two armies fought side by side. The alliance remained atypical even during the First World War; it rested on an identity of values rather than on political and territorial concessions at the expense of neighbours.
Dušan T. Bataković has published his fourth book in French, Kosovo: un conflit sans fin?, a monograph encompassing the past of Kosovo and Metohija from the middle ages to the status negotiations in 2006–2007. A historian above all, but also an eyewitness and a participant, Bataković provides a reliable in-depth account of the past of Serbia’s southern province (with new documentary sources for the period of Tito’s rule) as well as a detailed overview of UNMIK administration in the province (with emphasis on little known facts concerning the position of Serbs and other non-Albanians) and a brief summary of the status negotiations conducted
The Institute for Balkan Studies has published an edited volume of European relevance, fully in English, Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave. The editor Dušan T. Bataković has shaped the volume around the themes that have been marking the life of the Serbs, Goranies and Roma in the province not only during the last nine years, but also during different periods in the past; under Ottoman rule or foreign occupation (First and Second World wars), living a life of confinement in enclaves emerges as one of the gloomy features both of the past and present of Kosovo and Metohija. The volume brings to light these complex realities, consciously ignored or unspoken in the West.
"Nova istorija srpskog naroda" "The New History of the Serbian People"
Kosovo i Metohija u srpsko-arbanaskim odnosima" ("Kosovo-Metohija in Serbo-Albanian Relations")
Berceau de l'Etat médiéval et de la civilisation serbe, orné de centaines d'églises et de monastères, et peuplé depuis VIIe siècle par des Serbes, le Kosovo-Metohija fut en 1389 le théâtre d'une bataille fameuse de l'armée serbe et les Ottomans au Champs des Merles avec les conséquences lourdes, qui sonna le glas de l'indépendance de la Serbie.
Près de cinq siècles de joug ottoman s'ensuivirent au cours desquels les Serbes, de religion chrétienne, eurent à subir une dure répression, le plus souvent menée par les Albanais musulmans et armés, au service des Ottomans. Au fur et à mesure que les Albanais descendaient de leurs montagnes et s'installaient de force dans la plaine du Kosovo, les Serbes étaient contraintes de quitter leur terre pour émigrer vers le nord de la Serbie et même au-delà, en Empire des Habsbourg (1690,1739). Ainsi, la situation démographique au Kosovo se modifiait au cours des siècles en faveur des Albanais. Cependant les Serbes restaient majoritaires au Kosovo jusqu'au début du XXe siècle.
The third volume of the Kosovo Trilogy by Dušan T. Bataković covers the key phenomena of the realities of Kosovo-Metohija from the end of the nineteenth century to the Vienna status negotiations 2005–2007 inclusive. Very well documented, based on the available and verified sources, the book considerably and with scholarly rigour contributes to our knowledge of Kosovo and Metohija. The volume is additionally enriched with a selection of authentic documents.
"Savremenici o Kosovu i Metohiji 1850-1912" "Contemporaries on Kosovo-Metohija 1850-1912"
Kosovo i Metohija u srpskoj istoriji" "Kosovo-Metohija in Serbian History"
