This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed.

Includes maps of: Post-1945 Yugoslavia - Republics, Autonomous Provinces, Historic Regions, and Cities; Modern Bosnia; Medieval Bosnia; Banovinas, 1929 - Croatian Banovina, 1939; Independent State of Croatia, 1941. First published 1994 by Macmillan London Limited.

1. Races, myths and origins: Bosnia to 1180 -- 2. The medieval Bosnian state, 1180-1463 -- 3. The Bosnian Church -- 4. War and the Ottoman system, 1463-1606 -- 5. The Islamicization of Bosnia -- 6. Serbs and Vlachs -- 7. War and politics in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815 -- 8. Economic life, culture and society in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815 -- 9. The Jews and the Gypsies of Bosnia -- 10. Resistance and reform, 1815-1878 -- 11. Bosnia under Austro-Hungarian rule, 1878-1914 -- 12. War and the kingdom: Bosnia 1914-1941 -- 13. Bosnia and the second world war, 1941-1945 -- 14. Bosnia in Titoist Yugoslavia: 1945-1989 -- 15. Bosnia and the death of Yugoslavia: 1989-1992 -- 16. The destruction of Bosnia: 1992-1993 -- Epilogue: A short survey of events, 1993-1995.