The rise of nationality in the Balkans

By R.W. Seton-Watson and Robert William Seton-Watson

Book Overview

Before the gunshots of 1914, the Balkans were already remaking Europe. Borders were never only lines. In The Rise of Nationality in the Balkans, R. W. Seton-Watson traces how ideas of peoplehood hardened into programmes, parties, and international claims across a contested peninsula. Seton-Watson wrote as a British specialist whose scholarship helped frame Western debates on the Eastern Question and Europe's coming crisis. His study remains a touchstone for understanding why nationality became the decisive political language of the age. Written with the authority of a seasoned observer, this balkan nationalism history follows the pressure points where language, religion, and economic life met imperial rule in the late Ottoman Balkans and the neighbouring Habsburg lands. It is political history nonfiction at its most vivid: a map of national self-determination movements, rival loyalties, and the ethnic politics in Balkans that drew in Great Power diplomacy. Readers interested in pre-wwi Balkans will recognise the direct lines to the world war one origins, while students will value its clear argumentation as a diplomatic history reference for university European studies and wider eastern europe geopolitics. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Presented as a complete unabridged edition and classic reprint edition, it belongs on the shelf of the general reader and the classic-history collector who wants the formative texts that shaped modern understanding of the region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353706327
• ISBN13: 9789353706326
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"