In a convenient, concise format, "Serbia's Historical Heritage "explodes general perceptions of Serbia (the Balkans) as developmentally backwards. This work documents how Serbian society developed recognized cultural monuments in the Middle Ages, how the nation evolved into an ideal parliamentary state, and how Serbia fought and sacrificed in both World Wars on the Allied side.

At the time of Serbia's emergence from the ruins of Tito's Yugoslavia and of Milosevic's regime, Stevan Pavlowitch shuns the "doomed to violence" and the "doomed to martyrdom" paradigms favored respectively by some Western and Serbian analysts in order to pose difficult questions about Serbian history.

A collection of articles and historical materials on Kosovo and Metohije, covering its history, its relevance and meaning for the Serbian people and the world, its artistic and cultural contributions and monuments, and its current situations and problems.--Publisher.