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Croatia is a magnificent land full of surprises. Visitors are amazed to discover a country with specular natural wonders, a great culinary tradition, excellent wine, architecture, a beautiful language, and a vibrant national culture. While it is a small country when measured in square miles, market size, or military power, it has a beautiful culture that has profoundly impacted the world. The contributors to Croatian Cultural Renaissance: From the Margins to the Crossroad of Europewere the protagonists who survived the communist period and then lived through the fraught period of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s worked to understand, build, and preserve their cultural identity and freedom as Croatian people. They are diplomats, government officials, artists, and academics who are recognized within Croatia for their intellectual prowess and for their vital and noteworthy contributions to their country. While the chapters explore different areas of Croatia’ s national culture, they all center around the issue of how the past manifests.

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"""The Croatian Cultural Renaissance: From the Margins to the Crossroads of Europe stands out as a timely and invaluable compilation of original articles and case studies authored by prominent historians, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, and emerging scholars. This collection offers profound insights and analyses into the intricate intersection of culture and politics within one of Europe's newly established states. The contributors delve into diverse perspectives on how culture has served as the foundation for the evolution of Croatian identity and nation-building policies, spanning both recent and historically distant eras. Notably, several contributors are esteemed and widely recognized scholars, and their exceptional case studies explore key focal points in the dynamic landscape of real-world formation of a newly constituted nation-state."""

"""The Croatian Cultural Renaissance: From the Margins to the Crossroads of Europe stands out as a timely and invaluable compilation of original articles and case studies authored by prominent historians, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, and emerging scholars. This collection offers profound insights and analyses into the intricate intersection of culture and politics within one of Europe's newly established states. The contributors delve into diverse perspectives on how culture has served as the foundation for the evolution of Croatian identity and nation-building policies, spanning both recent and historically distant eras. Notably, several contributors are esteemed and widely recognized scholars, and their exceptional case studies explore key focal points in the dynamic landscape of real-world formation of a newly constituted nation-state."" --Mladen Ancic, Emeritus professor of History, University of Zadar, Croatia"

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G. Doug Davis, PhD, is professor of political science and the director of the master’s in international relations program at Troy University.

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