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Anglo-american views of Gavrilo Princip

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The paper deals with Western (Anglo-American) views on the Sarajevo assassination/attentat and Gavrilo Princip. Articles on the assassination and Princip in two leading quality dailies (The Times and The New York Times) have particularly been analysed as well as the views of leading historians and journalists who covered the subject including: R. G. D. Laffan, R. W. Seton-Watson, Winston Churchill, Sidney Fay, Bernadotte Schmitt, Rebecca West, A. J. P. Taylor, Vladimir Dedijer, Christopher Clark and Tim Butcher. In the West, the original general condemnation of the assassination and its main culprits was challenged when Rebecca West published her famous travelogue on Yugoslavia in 1941. An- other Brit, the remarkable historian A. J. P. Taylor, had a much more positive view on the Sarajevo conspirators and blamed Germany and Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of the Great War. A turning point in Anglo-American perceptions was the publication of Vladimir Dedijer’s monumental book The Road ...to Sarajevo (1966), which humanised the main conspirators, a process initiated by R. West. Dedijer’s book was translated from English into all major Western languages and had an immediate impact on the understanding of the Sarajevo assassination. The rise of national antagonisms in Bosnia gradually alienated Princip from Bosnian Muslims and Croats, a process that began in the 1980s and was completed during the wars of the Yugoslav succession. Although all available sources clearly show that Princip, an ethnic Serb, gradually developed a broader Serbo-Croat and Yugoslav identity, he was ethnified and seen exclusively as a Serb by Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks and Western journalists in the 1990s. In the past century imagining Princip in Serbia and the West involved a whole spectrum of views. In interwar Anglo-American perceptions he was a fanatic and lunatic. He became human- ised by Rebecca West (1941), A. J. P. Taylor showed understanding for his act (1956), he was fully explained by Dedijer (1966), challenged and then exonerated by Cristopher Clark (2012-13), and cordially embraced by Tim Butcher (2014).

Keywords:
the Sarajevo attentat (Assassination) / Gavrilo Princip / Rebecca West / A. J. P. Taylor / Vladimir Dedijer / Christopher Clark / Tim Butcher / The Times / The New York Times
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Balcanica, 2015, 46, 273-314
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  • Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Balkanološki institut, Beograd
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  • History of Political Ideas and Institutions in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th Centuries (RS-177011)

DOI: 10.2298/BALC1546273M

ISSN: 0350-7653

WoS: 000373142500014

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Marković, S. G.. (2015). Anglo-american views of Gavrilo Princip. in Balcanica
Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Balkanološki institut, Beograd.(46), 273-314.
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1546273M
Marković SG. Anglo-american views of Gavrilo Princip. in Balcanica. 2015;(46):273-314.
doi:10.2298/BALC1546273M .
Marković, Slobodan G., "Anglo-american views of Gavrilo Princip" in Balcanica, no. 46 (2015):273-314,
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1546273M . .

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