Taming Balkan nationalism / Robin Okey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okey, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Nationalism.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--1878-1918.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Austria--History--1867-1918.

Austria.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Ethnic relations.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. - ;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 ba

Contents:

Background to a mission : pre-Austrian Bosnia and the powers

Stuttering into gear

The nature of the Kallay regime

Kallay and the Serbs

Kallay and the Muslims

Kallay and the Croats

The crisis of the Kallay regime

Towards constitutionalism, 1903-10 : divergent visions

A public reckoning : cultural policy in the Bosnian Diet

On the eve of war : a balance sheet.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-337) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-152675-4

1-281-14927-6

9786611149277

1-4356-1395-3

OCLC:

437094916