Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg 'Civilizing Mission' in Bosnia 1878-1914

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Taming Balkan Nationalism by Robin Okey Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The first full-length history in English of the clash between the Habsburg occupiers of Bosnia-Herzegovina and their Serb, Croat, and Muslim subjects, from 1878 to the fateful assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Publisher Description Concentrating on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy s self-proclaimed cultural mission in occupied Bosnia in the period from 1878 to the outbreak of war in 1914, Taming Balkan Nationalism addresses two related issues: the impact of Europeanization in a backward society and the crystallization of the identities which have since dominated Bosnian life. On the basis of wide reading in the Austrian, Hungarian, and south Slavsources, including the Hungarian-language papers of the two leading administrators of Bosnia, Benjamin von K llay and Istv n Buri n, Robin Okey provides fresh and wide-ranging perspectives on a whole range of issues,including the Orientalist assumptions of Austrian policy, the struggle of administrators for the moral high ground with nascent Serb and Croat intelligentsias, K llay s controversial policy of the Bosnian nation , and the strategy and personality of the intriguing Buri n. He also opens up the hitherto unexplored background to student terrorism in the secondary schools of pre-1914 Bosnia, from which the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was this immediate historical context,

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2007
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199213917
• Condition: Fine

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