Between Serb and Albanian : a history of Kosovo / Miranda Vickers.

"First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. ... London"--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The rule of the Nemanjas and the arrival of the Ottomans. Kosovo, the centre of the Nemanjic state. The empire of Stephan Dusan. The arrival of the Ottomans. The battle of Kosovo. Subjection to Ottoman control in Kosovo -- 2. The great Serb migrations and the consolidation of Ottoman rule. Religious division in Kosovo. Movement of Christian populations. The Muslim population under pressure. Prizren. Weakening of the empires -- 3. Kosovo and the Ottoman decline. The Prizren League and Albanian nationalism. Cultural developments -- 4. The Young Turks and the Balkan Wars. Kosovars and the Young Turks. Disillusionment with the Young Turks and formation of the Balkan League. The First Balkan War. The Conference of Ambassadors. The Second Balkan War -- 5. The War of 1914-1918. War begins a new shake-up in the Balkans. The Great Serbian Retreat. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Kachak Movement -- 6. The Colonisation Programme. Alexander's dictatorship.

Colonisation of Kosovo begins. Other social developments. The Communist Party. The second colonisation programme -- 7. The Second World War. The Partisans and Kosovo. The Mukje Agreement. The second Prizren League. The Bujan Conference. The final stages of the war. The Albanian uprising -- 8. Kosovo in the new Socialist Yugoslavia. The 1946 Constitution. The break with Moscow. Social developments; cross-border Albanian relations. The 1963 Constitution. The removal of Alexander Rankovic -- 9. Albanian self-assertion gathers momentum. Population growth, industrial development and irredentism. The 1974 Constitution. Kosovars enjoy a sense of freedom. Demand grows for a Kosovar Republic -- 10. Kosovo's flimsy bridge-building role collapses. The Albanian riots. Yugoslav-Albanian relations; Kosovar irredentism. Serb reaction and a hardening of attitudes -- 11. 'Idemo na Kosovu' (Let's go to Kosovo). Kosovo Serbs bite the bullet. Slobodan Milosevic. The miners' protest.

Serbia's constitutional amendments -- 12. The Serbs reclaim their republic. The Serbs' programme for Kosovo. Kosovo's autonomy removed. Social changes under the 'emergency' administration. Serb-Croat conflict increases tension in Kosovo. The collapse of communism in Albania. The Kosovars consolidate their parallel state -- 13. Neither war nor peace. Ibrahim Rugova, a powerless leader. The issue of Albanian unification. Kosovar emigration. Deteriorating socio-economic conditions. The emergence of Albanian resistance groups. Growing division in the Kosovar ranks -- 14. 'Everything started with Kosovo, and everything will finish with Kosovo'. Apartheid in Kosovo. The Kosovo Liberation Army officially announces itself. Response of Kosovo Serbs to the worsening situation. Criticism of the LDK escalates. The education accord. Kosovars observe the discord in Albania. A funeral. App. Population data.