Izrada Napretkove Povijesti Bosne i Hercegovine
THE CREATION OF NAPREDAK’S HISTORY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Using available primary sources, written traces by the main actors about the idea and creation of the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina “directed” by the Croat Cultural Society “Napredak”, the author reconstructed and analysed the making of this unique work which in one and only of the three planned volumes, treats the history of these two provinces with a special overview of 15 authors and in 17 topics about the general development of Croats until 1463. Even though many of its authors during their work, and editors after the end of the enterprise, faced numerous difficulties and dilemmas, Napredak’s History of Bosnia and Herzegovina represented, after its first edition in 1942, and still represents today after two more editions in 1991 and 1998, and will represent in the 21st century, a work of permanent value.

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