Philipp Ther

Pieter M. Judson

Dan Diner

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk

Taner Akçam

Gregor Thum

Myroslav Shkandrij

David Gaunt

Tomas Balkelis

Eyal Ginio

Patrice M. Dabrowski

Robert Nemes

John-Paul Himka

Larry Wolfe

Elke Hartmann

Theodore R. Weeks

Gary B. Cohen

Yaroslav Hrytsak

Keith Brown

Peter Holquist

Alexander V. Prusin

Pamela Ballinger

Paul Robert Magocsi

Kai Struve

"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."—Central European History

 

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.

Indiana University Press

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

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