| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Pamela Ballinger. History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 328. Cloth $59.50, paper $21.95.
Pamela Ballinger has written a challenging and fascinating study of Italian migration from Istria in the wake of World War II. Exploiting the techniques of anthropology and history, linguistics and literary/cultural studies, Ballinger explains both the complex reasons for this process as well as the ways in which it has been interpreted and used over the past fifty years, both by the majority that left Yugoslavia and by the minority that stayed behind.	1
Chronologically, Ballinger begins her story not with the Istrian exodus but rather with a brief consideration of the earlier departure of Italians from Dalmatia in the interwar years. This sets the stage for a careful historical consideration of precisely what happened in Istria during the war, as Istrians, both Italophone and Slavophone, were caught up in vicious circles of antagonism and violence. She then follows the Italian-speaking population back to their new homes in Italy (primarily around Trieste), considering both the gradual process of adjustment and how their attitudes toward what had happened in their homeland changed first with temporal distance and then with the disappearance of the Yugoslav Communist regime. Finally, she returns to the Italian population that stayed in Istria, carefully considering their motivations and their attitudes.	. . .

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