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Shatterzone of empires : coexistence and violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman borderlands / edited by Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic conflict--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Ethnic conflict--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Borderlands--Europe, Eastern.
- Borderlands.
- Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Europe, Eastern--Boundaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 528 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically widespread, multicultural region at several levels-local, national, transnational, and empire-and through multiple approaches-social, cultural, political, and economic-this volume offers informed a
- Contents:
- Paving the way for ethnic cleansing : eastern Thrace during the Balkan wars (1912-1913) and their aftermath / Eyal Ginio
- "Wiping out the Bulgur race" : hatred, duty, and national self-fashioning in the Second Balkan War / Keith Brown
- Failed identity and the Assyrian genocide / David Gaunt
- Forms of violence during the Russian occupation of Ottoman territory and in northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad), October 1914-December 1917 / Peter Holquist
- A "zone of violence" : the anti-Jewish pogroms in eastern Galicia in 1914-1915 and 1941 / Alexander V. Prusin
- Ethnicity and the reporting of mass murder : Krakvis[p]ki Visti, the NKVD murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia exhumation / John-Paul Himka
- Communal genocide : personal accounts of the destruction of Buczacz, eastern Galicia, 1941-1944 / Omer Bartov
- Liquid borderland, inelastic sea : mapping the eastern Adriatic / Pamela Ballinger
- National modernism in post-revolutionary society : the Ukrainian renaissance and Jewish revival, 1917-1930 / Myroslav Shkandrij
- Carpathian Rus[p] : interethnic coexistence without violence / Paul Robert Magocsi
- Tremors in the shatterzone of empires : eastern Galicia in summer 1941 / Kai Struve
- Caught in between : border regions in modern Europe / Philipp Ther.
- Introduction : coexistence and violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman borderlands / Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz
- The traveler's view of Central Europe : gradual transitions and degrees of difference in European borderlands / Larry Wolff
- Megalomania and angst : the nineteenth-century mythicization of Germany's eastern borderlands / Gregor Thum
- Between empire and nation state : an outline for a European contemporary history of the Jews, 1750-1950 / Dan Diner
- Jews and others in vilna-Wino-Vilnius : invisible neighbors, 1831-1948 / Theodore R. Weeks
- Our laws, our taxes, and our administration : citizenship in imperial Austria / Gary B. Cohen
- Marking national space on the Habsburg Austrian borderlands, 1880-1918 / Pieter M. Judson
- Travel, railroads, and identity formation in the Russian empire / Frithjof Benjamin Schenk
- Germany and the Ottoman borderlands : the entwining of imperial aspirations, revolution, and ethnic violence / Eric D. Weitz
- The central state in the borderlands : Ottoman eastern Anatolia in the late nineteenth century / Elke Hartmann
- Borderland encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and their impact on identity formation / Patrice M. Dabrowski
- Mapping the hungarian borderlands / Robert Nemes
- A strange case of antisemitism : Ivan Franko and the Jewish issue / Yaroslav Hrytsak
- Nation state, ethnic conflict, and refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 / Tomas Balkelis
- The Young Turks and the plans for the ethnic homogenization of Anatolia / Taner Akçam.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-94963-6
- 0-253-00639-2
- OCLC:
- 826652880
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