ISBN:
9780253006394
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (543 pages)
Series Statement:
Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800947/09041
Keywords:
Ethnic conflict History 20th century
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Borderlands
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Ethnic conflict History 19th century
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Europe, Eastern - Ethnic relations - History - 19th century
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Europe, Eastern - Ethnic relations - History - 19th century
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Electronic books
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Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations 20th century
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History
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Europe, Eastern Boundaries
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Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations 19th century
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History
Abstract:
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 and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and how and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this specific region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands -- PART ONE: Imagining the Borderlands -- 1 The Traveler's View of Central Europe: Gradual Transitions and Degrees of Difference in European Borderlands -- 2 Megalomania and Angst: The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany's Eastern Borderlands -- 3 Between Empire and Nation State: Outline for a European Contemporary History of the Jews, 1750-1950 -- 4 Jews and Others in Vilna-Wilno-Vilnius: Invisible Neighbors, 1831-1948 -- PART TWO: Imperial Borderlands -- 5 Our Laws, Our Taxes, and Our Administration: Citizenship in Imperial Austria -- 6 Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands, 1880-1918 -- 7 Travel, Railroads, and Identity Formation in the Russian Empire -- 8 Germany and the Ottoman Borderlands: The Entwining of Imperial Aspirations, Revolution, and Ethnic Violence -- 9 The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century -- PART THREE: Nationalizing the Borderlands -- 10 Borderland Encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and Their Impact on Identity Formation -- 11 Mapping the Hungarian Borderlands -- 12 A Strange Case of Antisemitism: Ivan Franko and the Jewish Issue -- 13 Nation State, Ethnic Conflict, and Refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 -- 14 The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia -- PART FOUR: Violence on the Borderlands -- 15 Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath -- 16 "Wiping out the Bulgar Race": Hatred, Duty, and National Self-Fashioning in the Second Balkan War -- 17 Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide.
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