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Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914 by Timothy Snyder (ed.), Katherine Younger (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem zone, but rather as a full-fledged European region. Contrary to the commonly held perception, contributors to the volume argue, the Balkans did not lag behind the rest of European history, but rather anticipated many (West) European developments in the decades before and after 1900.In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Balkan states became fully independent nation-states. As they worked to consolidate their sovereignty, these countries looked beyond traditional state formation strategies to alternative visions rooted in militarism or national political economy, and not only succeeded on their own terms but changed Europe and the world beginning in 1912-14. As the Ottoman Empire weakened and ever more kinds of informal diplomacy were practiced on its territory by more powerful states, relationships between identity and geopolitics were also transformed. The result, as the contributors demonstrate, was a phenomenon that would come to pervade the whole of Europe by the 1920s and 1930s: the creeping substitution of ideas of religion and ethnicity for the ide

Who reads Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914?

Author

Timothy Snyder (ed.), Katherine Younger (ed.)

Publisher

University of Rochester Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities