Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261) and index.
Contents
When a dam breaks -- The demographic battlefield: 1912-66 -- After the fall of Rankovic -- The rising swell of nationalism -- Milosevic mobilises -- Lazar's curse: 'Whoever does not fight at Kosovo' -- The Albanians in Kosovo -- The Ottoman Empire -- The First World War and the First Yugoslavia -- The Second World War -- A resistant culture -- Tito's Yugoslavia -- Everything but a republic -- 1981 and afterwards -- An afterword on Communism in Kosovo -- The turn to nonviolence -- Miners defend autonomy -- The Party crumbles -- Organisation and pluralism -- The Campaign to Reconcile Blood Feuds -- Military realism -- Nonviolence in Kosovo Albanian identity -- Two sovereignties -- A Serbian recipe for Albanian 'separatism' -- Wholesale dismissals -- Police and paramilitary -- The contest for legitimacy -- The electoral boycott -- International support -- Independence: a 'maximalist' goal? -- Parallel structures -- Schools in struggle -- Open but illegal -- The University of Prishtina -- Funding education -- The lesson taught -- Medical care -- The media -- Arts and sport -- Economic survival -- Politics 'as if' -- A state-in-embryo -- Pointers for an alternative strategy -- The Dayton effect -- A framework for 'active nonviolence' -- A strategy of empowerment -- Altering Serbian will -- Empowerment: women -- Empowerment: youth -- The student movement of 1997-98 -- When the world takes notice -- Principles and interests -- In the absence of a peace process -- International solidarity takes time.