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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792258203321

Autore

Okey Robin

Titolo

Taming Balkan nationalism : [the Habsburg "Civilizing Mission" in Bosnia, 1878-1914] / / Robin Okey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-19-152675-4

1-281-14927-6

9786611149277

1-4356-1395-3

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

949.742/01

Soggetti

Nationalism - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Bosnia and Hercegovina History 1878-1918

Austria History 1867-1918

Bosnia and Hercegovina Ethnic relations

Bosnia and Hercegovina History Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Background to a mission : pre-Austrian Bosnia and the powers--Stuttering into gear--The nature of the Kállay regime-- Kállay and the Serbs--Kállay and the Muslims--Kállay and the Croats--The crisis of the Kállay regime--Towards constitutionalism, 1903-10 : divergent visions--A public reckoning : cultural policy in the Bosnian Diet--On the eve of war : a balance sheet.

Sommario/riassunto

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