{"title":"Senior Research Fellow Noel Malcolm","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"kosovo-book-senior-research-fellow-noel-ma-9780060977757","title":"Kosovo","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn excellent scholarly contribution to the study of the province. . . . Seriously differs from the biased interpretations published by Serbian and Albanian historians, or trendy but shallow Western Kosovology experts.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eCanadian Slavonic Papers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA thrilling detective story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExcellent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA book every policy expert, journalist and lay person must read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMalcolm's narrative is gripping, even brilliant at times ... He takes to his task with the vigor of a detective driven by true passion. At times his claims are, in terms of Balkan history, quite revolutionary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCover(s) the whole history of Kosovo, with an authority that is often breathtaking and never oppressive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrilliantly researched and argued ... a magisterial work of history ... \u003cb\u003eKosovo\u003c\/b\u003e will inevitably be received immediately as an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding and knowledge of a contemporary crisis. But to see the book as merely a contribution to the present-day debate is to do it a disservice. This is a profound and pioneering work which will endure for generations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this awe-inspiring work, Malcolm has created a vital successor to his Bosnia: A Short History and an essential aid to anyone who wishes to understand this tragic region today...His book is exceptional not only for his unimpeachable rearch, but also for his equitable examination of the conflicting ethnic views of what really happened ... One can't help speculating on how a clear understanding of the information contained here might have affected the Dayton Accord and history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Publisher's Weekly, 4\/20\/98\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy far the best available guide to the fatal steps to catastrophe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e. . .elaborately researched . . .--\u003ci\u003eBook World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA contested region of Serbia bordered by Albania and Macedonia, Kosovo was left out of the Bosnian peace agreement of 1995. For the 2.2 million Albanians living in Kosovo, this sparked the abandonment of a nonviolent independence movement in favor of armed struggle. The tinderbox Balkan province of Kosovo thus remains in limbo as Albanians urgently rally their forces against Serbian rule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExemplifying once again the best of narrative, analytical history, Noel Malcolm here provides the definitive story of Kosovo, from its origins to its current state of unrest. \u003cb\u003eKosovo\u003c\/b\u003e clarifies the troubled past and present of this crucial region in a readable and neatly compressed style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599195971857,"sku":"GOR003031351","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50343030751505,"sku":"CIN0060977752G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50998864773393,"sku":"NIN9780060977757","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415410835729,"sku":"CIN0060977752VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695707029777,"sku":"CIN0060977752A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53445188780305,"sku":"GOR004034838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0060977752.jpg?v=1751226530"},{"product_id":"agents-of-empire-book-senior-research-fellow-noel-ma-9780190056728","title":"Agents of Empire","description":"In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly placed interpreter in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire that fell to the Turks in 1453. The taking of Constantinople had profoundly altered the map of the Mediterranean. By the time of Bruni's document, Albania, largely a Venetian province from 1405 onward, had been absorbed into the Ottoman Empire. Even under the Ottomans, however, this was a world marked by the ferment of the Italian Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In Agents of Empire, Malcolm uses the collective biography of the Brunis to paint a fascinating and intimate picture of Albania at a moment when it represented the frontier between empires, cultures, and religions. The lives of the polylingual, cosmopolitan Brunis shed new light on the interrelations between the Ottoman and Christian worlds, characterized by both conflict and complex interdependence. The result of years of archival detective work, Agents of Empire brings to life a vibrant moment in European and Ottoman history, challenging our assumptions about their supposed differences. Malcolm's book guides us through the exchanges between East and West, Venetians and the Ottomans, and tells a story of worlds colliding with and transforming one another.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49755618836753,"sku":"CIN019005672XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999553720593,"sku":"NIN9780190056728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/019005672X.jpg?v=1750694569"},{"product_id":"agents-of-empire-book-noel-malcolm-9780190262785","title":"Agents of Empire","description":"In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. 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