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INSTITUTE OF HISTORY
of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Collection of Works
Volume 18
Response to Noel Malcolm's Book
KOSOVO. A SHORT HISTORY
Scientific Discussion on Noel Malcolm`s book "Kosovo. A Short
History"
(Macmillan, London 1998, 492)
8th October 1999
This
book contains eight historical studies with the criticism of Noel Malcolm's
book: Kosovo A Short History. The
texts were read at the Discussion organized by the Historical Institute
of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art in Belgrade on October 8,
1999.
"Needless to say, the motifs for this Discussion are scientific.
It was not organized because the book in question is worthy of it as
a scientific work, but because it deals with a phenomenon deserving
to be thoroughly discussed. Noel Malcolm's book Kosovo. A Short History
is not a scientific work, yet the general public, and even some
professional circles, have accepted it as an objective presentation
of the past, notably the past of Kosovo. The publicity it has received
in many media in the West as well as its eager inclusion in the holdings
of many libraries bear witness to that".
From
the Foreword of the Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Slavenko Terzic
C
O N T E N T S:
1.
About this Scientific Discussion (Slavenko Terzic)
2. Milorad Ekmecic,
Historiography by the Garb Only
3. Djordje Jankovic,
Middle Ages in Noel Malcolm's Kosovo. A Short History and Real Facts
4. Ema Miljkovic-Bojanic,
Malcolm's Apology of the "Pax Ottomana"
5. Slavenko Terzic,
Old Serbia in the Eyes of the "Merciful Angel": the Phenomenon
of the Historian as à Destructionist
6. Mile Bjelajac,
Pro et Contra: Some Western Echoes of Noel Malcolm's Book Kosovo. A
Short History
7. Djordje Borozan,
Malcolm's View of Kosovo n the Twentieth Century
8. Ljubodrag Dimic,
Facts and Interpretations of Education and Everyday Terror
CONTRIBUTION:
Milorad Ekmecic,
Shorter History
Criticism of the Shorter History of Bosnia by Noel Malcolm
Editor-in-Chief
SLAVENKO TERZIC
Director of the Institute of History
Belgrade
2000
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