Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften

This accessible and engaging book covers the full span of Serbia's history, from the sixth-
century Slav migrations up to the present day. Dejan Djokić draws out several common
themes, including: migrations; the Serbs' relations with neighboring empires and peoples;
Serbia as a society formed in the imperial borderlands; and the polycentricity of Serbia. The
volume also highlights the surprising vitality of Serb identity, and how it has survived in
different incarnations over the centuries through reinvention.

Dejan Djokić is Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and
currently Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Chair for Southeast European History,
Humboldt University of Berlin
John Connelly is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California at
Berkeley and currently John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the American Academy
in Berlin