Shatterzone of Empires Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

• Main Author: Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Hi, OMER BARTOV, ERIC D WEITZ
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Indiana University Press 2013
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Austria; Borderlands; Borders; Boundaries; Eastern Europe; Empires; Ethnic conflict; Ethnic relations; Europe; Europe, Eastern; Germany; HISTORY; Hungary; Interethnic conflict; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Russia; Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Territory; Turkey
• ISBN: 9780253006318; 0253006317; 9780253006394; 0253006392; 025300635X; 9780253006356

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.