Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

<p> The term Yugoslavia first appeared in an article in the newspaper <em>Slovenija </em>in Ljubljana on Friday October 19 1849. The author of the article declared that he was not interested in politics but only in the literary unification of Yugoslavs within the Austro-Hungary Empire. With ongoing conflicts and disparate forms of nationalism in and around historical Yugoslavia as its backdrop <em>Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs</em> for the first time addresses the history and idea of a united Yugoslavia in and during which a true Yugoslav identity never really came into being . Following a series of wars and uprisings from 1875 onwards the first nation-state of Southern Slavs established after World War I became the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes - a competing nationalistic blender that would go through failure revival and transformation of the concept of Yugoslavia.</p>