This dissertation examines the overlapping set of economic, political and cultural legacies of West Africa and Yugoslavia in the 20th century through the lens of the 19th century territorial partitions enacted in imperial Europe. As a result of the Berlin Congress of 1878, which capriciously partitioned the Balkan territories into various states and imperial holdings, and the Berlin Conference of 1884, which incited the bloodthirsty "Scramble for Africa" and the colonial occupation required to sustain it, the culturally and geographically disparate entities of West Africa and the Balkans confront an expansionist and imperially aggressive Europe at nearly the same time. Seeking to properly provincialize Europe in this discussion by focusing on the spaces of partition themselves, compared on the basis of this historical encounter, this dissertation theorizes a multi-disciplinary concept of balkanization: a system of techniques of imperial control that precipitated a cultural response of resistance in the spaces of partition in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on postcolonial, African and Slavic studies, world literature, political science and history, the theory of balkanization responds to the global remapping of two annihilative world wars and explains the subsequent ethnic and nationalist violence that characterized the waning years of the century in these disparate places. The literary extension of balkanization is explored through comparisons of two narrative genres, the travelogue and the chronicle novel, that encode the spatial and temporal dimensions of partition before and after WWII. Rebecca West's travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) is analyzed next to Ivo Andrić's chronicle-novel Bridge on the Drina (1945) to discuss the pre-WWII cultural and political dynamics of balkanization in Yugoslavia. Next, an investigation of In Black and White (1962), a travelogue by Oskar Davičo written at the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, is juxtaposed with with Ayi Kwei Armah's apocalyptic chronicle Two Thousand Seasons (1973). These texts elaborate the limits of unity in a balkanized world in terms of culture, economics, race, and ultimately history, whose nearly monolithic violence beckons the end of time and the need for renewal or regeneration, such that balkanization forms the basis of historical inquiry into the very conditions of the present.

Often identified as a proponent of Hyper-dispensationalism - which recognizes a clear distinction between the Church and Israel and believes that the Christian Church began with the ministry of the Apostle Paul - E.W. Bullinger here attempts to examine the basis of dispensational truth as found in Paul's Epistles. In doing so, he hopes to clarify "the dividing of the Word of Truth at Acts 28" for those searching for a greater understanding of their beliefs. Controversial in the eyes of traditional Christianity, this defining work is of value to Christian and Jewish scholars alike. British clergyman ETHELBERT WILLIAM BULLINGER (1837-1913) was one of the most respected Bible scholars of the 19th century. He is author of numerous works including Commentary on Revelation, Great Cloud of Witnesses, and How to Enjoy the Bible.

Clearly something is dreadfully wrong with our society when we compare the inner societal performances against the documented foundational biblical principles on which our nation is purportedly built. It is not just a national problem we face, rather an international crisis due to the absence of understanding of what spiritual repercussions await us for the lack of performance to Gods dictates. We are distracted and sidelined by childish malice over skin color, races, and a stockpile of other nonessentials, as in essence, the angels of God gradually push shut the great stone hinged door of time allotted us to establish true God fearing relationships, in the final hour of this 6th dispensation. God used one blood, His blood in the creation of man upon the face of the earth. The dominion and power of Gods human creatures were bestowed upon and within man by the blessing of the Creator. Mans failure in lack of obedience to God imposed a chronological timeframe upon humankind that was already operating in the reproductive realm, from initiation of pregnancy to full term for birth, but would now directly impact the lifespan of humans, and sub-species, from birth to death. The life of every God conscious creature is in the blood: a transfusable, non-transmutable, generation transcending, God breathed biomaterial. A goodly portion of the God conscious segment of society is visually aware, but functionally asleep. God, who has given us dominion, has also given us time to get our domain in order, to His specifications: in fact He has given us six allotments, or dispensations of time, wherein we have control, to do so. The Lord will attend and manage personally the 7th dispensation, in His vesture dipped in blood. Gods blood has its role throughout all of the 7 dispensations.