Archive for Peter Mentzel
Remembering and Inventing: A Short History of the Balkans
Peter Mentzel is an assistant professor of history at Utah State University. Since the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia descended into bloodshed and mayhem during the summer of 1991 a number of different historical explanations for the conflict’s origins and ferocity have been written. While these accounts differ in their details, in general they paint two [...]
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