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Major surveys and overviews

Without being exhaustive, the following list gives an idea of the international scope of this discipline and its thematic breadth:

  • Robert Lee Wolff, The Balkans in Our Times (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1956)
  • L. S. Stavrianos, The Balkans since 1453 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1958)
  • Charles and Barbara Jelavich, eds., The Balkans in Transition. Essays on the Development of Balkan Life and Politics Since the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963).
  • L. S. Stavrianos, The Balkans, 1815-1914 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963)
  • William H. McNeill, Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964)
  • Charles and Barbara Jelavich, The Balkans (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965)
  • Traian Stoianovich, A Study in Balkan Civilization (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967)
  • Charles Jelavich, ed, Language and Area Studies. East Central and Southeastern Europe: A Survey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969)
  • Paul L. Horecky, ed., Southeastern Europe: A Guide to Basic Publications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969)
  • Joseph Rothschild, East Central Europe between the Two World Wars (A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington, 1974)
  • Helmut W. Schaller, Die Balkansprachen. Eine Einführung in die Balkanphilologie (Heidelberg, 1975)
  • Michael Impey, "The Present State of Romanian Studies in the United States and Canada," Modern Language Journal, Vol. 59 (1975), Nr. 5-6, pp. 262-272
  • Radoslav Katičić and Mate Križman, Ancient Languages of the Balkans (The Hague, 1976)
  • Agnija V. Desnickaja, Grammatičeskij stroj balkanskikh iazykov: issledovanija po semantike grammatičeskikh form [Grammatical Organization of the Balkan Languages: Studies of the Semantics of Grammatical Forms] (Leningrad, 1976)
  • Peter F. Sugar, Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 (A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington, 1977)
  • Charles and Barbara Jelavich, The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920 (A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington, 1977)
  • Michael B. Petrovich, "American Work on East European History, 1966-1976," Balkanistica, Vol. 4 (1977-1978), pp. 89-122
  • Kostas Kazazis, "Albanian, Hungarian, Modern Greek, and Rumanian Linguistics: 1966-1976," Balkanistica, Vol. 4 (1977-1978), pp. 132-145
  • Georg R. Solta, Einführung in die Balkanlinguistik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Substrats und des Balkanlateinischen, (Darmstadt, 1980)
  • Barbara Jelavich, History of the Balkans. Volume I: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Volume II: Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
  • Emanuele E. Banfi, Linguistica balcanica (Bologna, 1985), Jacques Feuillet, La linguistique balkanique (Paris, 1986)
  • Petia Asenova, Balkansko ezikoznanie. Osnovni problemi na balkanskija ezikov sŭjuz [Balkan Linguistics: Fundamental Problems of the Balkan Sprachbund] (Sofia, 1989; V. Tŭrnovo 2002)
  • Tat’jana V. Civ’jan, Lingvističeskie osnovy balkanskoj modeli mira [Linguistics Foundations of the Balkan Model of the World] (Moscow, 1990)
  • Norbert Reiter, Grundzüge der Balkanologie: ein Schritt in die Eurolinguistik (Berlin & Wiesbaden, 1994)
  • Jean Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington, 1994)
  • Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • Uwe Hinrichs (ed.), Handbuch der Südosteuropa-Linguistik (Wiesbaden, 1999)
  • Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe, Revised and Expanded Edition (A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold, University of Washington, 2002)

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