The Balkans: nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

1. A confederacy of peasants: rebellion and revolution, 1804-66.

2. The realm of ruins: reform and decay, 1839-78.

3. A maze of conspiracy: the southern Balkans, 1878-1914.

4. The empire of illusions: the northern Balkans, 1878-1914.

5. A house of wars: war and peace, 1914-24.

6. The palaces of deceit: the royal dictatorships, 1923-41.

7. City of the dead: occupation, genocide, liberation, civil war, 1941-49.

8. Prisons of history: communism and militarism, 1949-89.

Epilogue: The Balkan vortex: nationalism, war and NATO, 1989-99.