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Hvar in the Modern Age

Identity and Change in Southeast Europe

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Hvar in the Modern Age

Identity and Change in Southeast Europe

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Description

Florian Bieber traces the history of the island of Hvar during the 19th and 20th centuries. Bieber uses Hvar as a novel lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states and identity, tourism and the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea and the region of southeast Europe. The book shows how ordinary people dealt with the challenges of the rise of nations, as well as transnational connections such migration and tourism and the changing of empires and states. Based on a wealth of archival materials from Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, the UK and the USA, Hvar in the Modern Age also reveals the complexities of the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Yugoslavia from a bottom-up perspective and the realities and challenges of island life in southeast Europe during the modern period.

Table of Contents

List of Images and Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Of Islands
2. From Antiquity to the Decline of Venice
3. Benign Neglect? Habsburg Rule
4. Competing Nation States
5. The Socialist Experiment
6. Croatia after Independence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 22 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781350202658
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Florian Bieber

Florian Bieber is Professor of Southeast European…

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