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Jozo Tomasevich (1908 – October 15, 1994) was an American economist and historian whose speciality was the economic and social history of Yugoslavia. He was born in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of Austria-Hungary. In the mid-1930s, he worked at the National Bank of Yugoslavia in Belgrade and published three well-received books on Yugoslavian economics. In 1938, he moved to the United States as the recipient of a Rockefeller fellowship and conducted research at Harvard University before joining the academic staff of Stanford University. In 1948, he joined the staff at San Francisco State College, where he researched and taught for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1973. Tomasevich began writing on Yugoslavia in World War II – War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945. He wrote two parts of a three-volume series before his death. The third volume, on the Yugoslav Partisans, remains unpublished despite being 75-percent complete at his death. (Full article...)