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

by Robin Okey

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 Slav sources, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199213917
• ISBN13: 9780199213917
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"