Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbia and the Crimean War

Special Editions 95. Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art

Crisis and armament economic relations between Great Britain and Serbia 1910-1912

On the eve of the 1914-18 war, Great Powers had competed for influence in the Balkans. While preparing for the war with the Ottoman Empire the Balkan states were ready to take huge war credits and to place big orders for weapons and military equipment. Foreign Office did not show any interest in involving British capital and industry in this competition. British diplomacy even discouraged investments in Serbian military programme before 1914

To crimea via Belgrade: Thomas Fonblanque to Lord Raglan 1854-1855

Eleven letters sent to Lord Raglan, Commander-in-Chief of British troops in the Crimea in 1854 and 1855, by Thomas Fonblanque, British Consul General at Belgrade, constitute a little known group of documents that provided useful information for the Allied campaign in the Balkans and the Crimea. The paper, however, pays special attention to the Consul’s "Sanitary Memorandum", as it reflects the scope of interest and range of knowledge of the average British diplomat at the time

Ралф Пеџет: један дипломата у Србији

Special Editions 94. Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art

Crna Gora u svesti jednog britanskog diplomate. Izveštaj pukovnika Hjua Rouza iz 1852

Студија о Мемоару о Црној Гори, потеклом из пера утицајног британског официра и дипломате Хјуа Роуза, представља прилог историји слике која је о Црној Гори постојала међу политичким елитама Западне Европе. Притом, она доноси и допринос проучавању извора за историју ове земље. Чињеница да је Црна Гора почетком 1853. по први пут у својој историји дошла у први план сложених односа Великих сила, учинила је ову област, њену прошлост, правни статус и утемељена или жељена права, значајним и занимљивим за армију европских политичара, дипломата, али и научника. Иако лишен научне непристрасности и до краја острашћен, Роузов Мемоар представио је једно тумачење црногорске историје засновано на изворима, који су за историографију остали у извесној мери непознати и донекле занемарени

Uvod u istorijske studije kao univerzitetski predmet u Beogradu

U članku je predstavljena istorija nastanka i razvoja predmeta Uvod u istorijske studije na Odeljenju za istoriju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu. Takođe, prikazano je i stoleće razvoja nastave metodologije na studijama istorije Velike škole i Univerziteta u Beogradu, koje je prethodilo formiranju ovog predmeta. Konačno analiziran je i uporedan razvoj metodoloških i uvodnih predmeta na univerzitetskim studijama istorije u Srbiji, Hrvatskoj i Bugarskoj, te u nešto opštijim crtama u Austriji/Austro-Ugarskoj, Nemačkoj i Velikoj Britaniji.Since 1964, the Introduction to Historical Studies has been a course at the undergraduate studies of History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. There was a belief that Serbian university studies of history were lagging behind the European university education and that the methodological and theoretical studies were neglected from their very beginning in the 19th century. This article argues that the methodological and theoretical organization of seminaries in German, Austrian and British universities were genuinely slow and reluctant, while the Balkan university traditions were similar to each other with limited government resources, undefined needs, and great discontinuities. A comparison of the development of theoretical, methodological, and introductory courses at the universities in Belgrade, Sofia, and Zagreb, shows striking similarities frequently instigated by direct influences. Differences appeared at the University of Zagreb only after the World War II and later during the period of transition from 1995 to 201

A port and a railway: The history of a Maritime County as a study of Balkan colonialism 1912-1913.

This article deals with a period of Serbian rule over the Northern Albanian districts (from November 1912 to April 1913). As Kingdom of Serbia was the only European country, beside Switzerland, with no territorial access to the open sea, one of its main war aims was the annexation of an outlet to the Southern Adriatic. Thus after the First Balkan War victory, Serbian army occupied some territories in Northern Albania which were not populated by ethnic Serbs, but were of utmost importance for the commercial and strategic reasons. In this article the colonial and imperial aspects of short-lived Serbian rule are examined and compared with the experience of colonial powers

Montenegro as perceived by a British diplomat: The Hugh Rose's report of 1852.

The following article deals with the image of Montenegro, a little country from the south-east European periphery, as perceived by a member of the nineteenth century British political elite. The history of this petty entity, less populated than an average English city, became especially important on the eve of the Holly Places Crises (of Palestine, 1853). A single dispute over the Montenegro-Ottoman border threatened to turn into European war, just a year before the Crimean War commenced. In regard the Montenegrin question, the always sensitive European "balance of power" was upset with the appearance of the unexpected alliance between Russia and Austria. The unique interest of the British Empire then started, for a short period of time, to be tied in with this almost unknown principality. The attitude of British diplomacy to Montenegro, image of the principality reconstructed in the Colonel Hugh Rose's report and its sources, could contribute not only to the advance the history of British foreign relations, but also to the development of the history of Montenegro

Kingdom of Serbia and modernization of Kosovo, Metohija and Macedonia after 1912

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Nanosize ferrites obtained by ball milling: Crystal structure, cation distribution, size-strain analysis and Raman investigations

Spinels samples Fe2.85Y0.15O4 (S1) and Fe2.55In0.45O4 (S2), such as Fe3O4 + gamma-Fe2O3 (S3) were obtained by ball milling. TEM micrograph as well as XRPD line broadening analyses show nanosize nature of the ferrite powders. Cation distribution, found by Rietveld refinement of the site occupancies, indicate Y3+ ions presence at 16d sites in Fe2.85Y0.15O4, and a random In3+ ions distribution on both 8a and 16d sites in Fe2.55In0.45O4 (space group Fd (3) over barm). From the XRPD line broadening analysis crystallite size and strain values were determined. The crystallite size and strain anisotropy is significant, especially for Fe2.85Y0.15O4 and Fe2.55In0.45O4. This result is discussed regarding the influence of the cation substitutions. The Raman signature confirms the spinel structure and the homogeneity of the particles. (c) 2006 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved