History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans
- ISBN-10
- 0691086974
- ISBN-13
- 9780691086972
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Pamela Ballinger
Description
This text asks what happens to historical memory and cultural identity when state borders undergo radical transformation. Concentrating on Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula it explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind.
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