Problem is many serbs don't really take Malcolm seriously or care for what he has to say
I read it two years ago and I have no idea what the fuss is about on the serb side, he is pretty unbiased and can be too careful
Who cares what they take seriously or not, will you stop writing nonsense post after post? Phanes is right. I already successfully used the book in arguments by using specific references. . Book is very well written and there is plenty of references which allow readers to go further investigation and studying. Counterparty was claiming there was no Albanians in Ottoman Kosovo tax defter and linked defter to me, while i was able to find Albanians there because Malcolm gave exact pages where i will find these Albanians.
Luckily, i have retyped this before so i didnt have to do it again, this is directly from his Kosovo book:
Kosovo: A Short History:
Acknowledgements:
My first debt of gratitude is to Alistair Horne, and to the Warden and Fellows of St Antony`s College, Oxford, who elected me to the Alistair Horne Fellowship for 1995-96 in order to enable me to complete my work on this book.
I am also grateful to Robert Evans and Richard Crampton for letting me try out some of the arguments presented in Chapter 8 at their Central and East European History seminar at Brasenose College. Anyone who works on Balkan history will know how much time and effort can be spent trying to locate (or acquire) books and articles: there is not a single library, in Western Europe or even in the Balkans, that offers all the relevant materials under one roof. I am grateful to many friends for gifts, loans, copies and other services in this regard: above all to Bejtullah Destani, whose own knowledge of the sources of Albanian historyis extraordinarily encyclopedic, and to Ahmed Žilić, a generous and ever-resourceful friend. For similar services i should also like to give special thanks to two other friends, D. S. and J. M., as well as to Norman Cigar, Ger Duijzings, Branko franolić, Timothy Garton Ash, Fra ignacije Gavran, Ivo Goldstein, Valeria Heuberger, Christine von Kohl, Branka Magaš, Kastriot Myftiu, Luan Malltezi, Željko Mandić, Alexander Shiroka, Aleksandar Stipčević, Yuri Stoyanov, Marian Wenzel, Tadej Zupančić, and Isa Zymberi.
I am also very grateful to Philip and Anette Goelet for hospitality in Maryland, Berney and Betty Nunan for hospitality in Tirana, and Aleksandra Ivin and professor M. Rotar for their help at the National Library in Zagreb.For permission to study and cite manuscript materials in their collections, i am grateful to the controller of Her Majestys Stationery Office (representing the Crown) in respect of the Public Record Office, London, and also to the following: the Archive du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Paris:the Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Vatican City: the Archivio di Stato, Venice: the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticam City: the Biblioteca Nazionale Maricana, Venice; the Biblioteca Unicersitaria, Bologna; the bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; thebodleian Library, Oxford; the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna ; the insituto per la Storia della Societa e dello Stato Veneziano, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice; the kriegsarchiv, Vienna, the national Archives, Washington, DC; the school of Oriental and African Studies, London; and the Somerset Record Office, Taunton. In addition, I am also grateful to the following libraries and institutions: the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome; the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence; the Biblioteca Nazionale 'Vittorio Emanuele', Rome; the Biblioteke Kombetare, Tirana; the British Library, London; the Cambridge University Library; the institut fur osteuropaiche Geschiche und Sudostorschung der Universitat Wien, Vienna; the Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb; the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hamburg; and the Taylor Institution, Oxford.
