Bibliographic record
Abstract
Elizabeth Roberts. Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi, 521 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $37.50, cloth.Elizabeth Roberta's book, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro, is an addition to the growing body of the politically induced applied scholarship on the Balkans. Thanks to a self-confessed infatuation of this former diplomat with Montenegro, the newest independent state in the world is presented to readers as a deeply orientalized space.This monograph consists of twelve chapters covering many centuries-from prehistory and the arrival of the Slavs, to the contemporary discomforts of transition in Montenegro. It offers an interesting rendition of a selected number of secondary sources in English on this corner of southeastern Europe. It pays insufficient attention, however, to very important themes such as the loss of Montenegrin independence and sovereignty in 1918, and the role Montenegro played in the former SFR Yugoslavia, as well as in the process of the dissolution of that state, for example. Roberts should, nevertheless, be commended for attempting to achieve the impossible in less than 500 pages and without consulting a single archival source that originated in the region.Only the chapters on the medieval history ofMontenegro live up to the promise of an informative text. Here, Roberts provides a solid overview of John Fine's and Dimitri Obolensky's valuable accounts of the medieval history of the region. The absence of Larry Wolffs monograph Venice and the Slavs from the bibliography is regrettable since consulting it could have shed more light on the relations between the medieval state of Zeta and its powerful neighbour, Venice.When it comes to analyzing Montenegro during World War Two there is no mention of the scholarly works of the most prominent Montenegrin historian of this period, Radoje Pajovid. As a consequence, Roberts glances over the very sensitive issue of the collaboration between Krsto Popovic, the former leader of the independent-minded Greens, and the Italian occupying force, limiting the analysis to a single explanatory footnote.The last chapter (The Djukanovic Years) is devoted to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, and it serves the purpose of validating the policies and actions of the current power structure in Montenegro.The issue of the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik is the first case in point. The author places the blame for the attack squarely on the shoulders of Slobodan MiloSevid and the Yugoslav Army (JNA). …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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