The former Yugoslavia's diverse peoples : a reference sourcebook / Matjaž Klemenčič and Mitja Žagar.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.

1. The South Slavic Peoples: Sixth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Yugoslav Nations, from 1800 to World War I -- 3. Yugoslav "Nations" during World War I and the Establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes -- 4. "The First Yugoslavia": Yugoslav Nations between the First and Second World Wars (1918-1941) -- 5. Yugoslav Nations during World War II (1941-1945) -- 6. The Yugoslav Federation, 1945-1991: The History of the "New" Yugoslavia -- 7. The Region of the Former Yugoslavia after 1990: New States and a New Situation.

"At the end of the twentieth century, interregional hostilities in the former Yugoslavia culminated with Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of ethnic cleansing, NATO intervention in the region, and, ultimately, revolution. But these were just the latest episodes of upheaval in a region rocked by ethnic violence for centuries. From the settlement of the South Slavs in the sixth century to the crisis and democratization in the 1980s and the disintegration of the country in the early 1990s, The Former Yugoslavia's Diverse Peoples traces the bloody history of the region through to the fragile alliances of its present-day countries."--BOOK JACKET.