Description: Uses the history of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav border to examine how representations of difference have affected the politics of sovereignty during the twentieth century.
Brief description: Glenda Sluga is Director of European Studies, Senior Lecturer in History, and Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is the coauthor, with Barbara Caine, of Gendering European History.
Review Quotes:
"Sluga has a thorough knowledge of the relevant historical literature and a good 'feel' for the issues. The question of Trieste's position in the history of the Cold War is theoretically provocative." - Douglas R. Holmes, University of Houston