The emergence of the Balkan national states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has long been viewed through an Orientalist lens, and their birth and evolution traditionally seen by scholars as the effect of the Ottoman Empire's decline. As a result, the role played by the…
Townsmen, peasants and the reformed society in Ottoman Bosnia -- Upholding stability in the Bosnian Vilayet in turbulent political times -- Crisis at Ottoman-Montenegrin borders escalates (1874/75) -- Efforts for pacification and refugee return - and its obstruction in early 187…
The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history-the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. The book analyses the influence of the West-from the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise and c…
"The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century history--the rise of nationalism, communism, fascism, genocide, identity and war. Written by one of the leading historians of the region, this is a new interpretation of that his…
"Combining different disciplinary perspectives, War and Diplomacy argues that the key events that portended the beginning of the end of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire were the The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. The essays in this volume analyze how the …