Shatterzone of Empires

Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands
Herausgeber: Weitz, Eric D.; Bartov, Omer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 938g
• ISBN-13: 9780253006356
• ISBN-10: 025300635X
• Artikelnr.: 35331267

Autorenporträt

Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Eric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and the Arts and Professor of History at City College, City University of New York. His books include A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation and Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian,
and Ottoman Borderlands \ Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz
Part 1. Imagining the Borderlands
1. The Traveler's View of Central Europe: Gradual Transitions and Degrees
of Difference in European Borderlands \ Larry Wolff
2. Megalomania and Angst: The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany's
Eastern Borderlands \ Gregor Thum
3. Between Empire and Nation State: An Outline for a European Contemporary
History of the Jews, 1750-1950 \ Dan Diner
4. Jews and Others in Vilna-Wino-Vilnius: Invisible Neighbors, 1831-1948 \
Theodore R. Weeks
Part 2. Imperial Borderlands
5. Our Laws, Our Taxes, and Our Administration: Citizenship in Imperial
Austria \ Gary B. Cohen
6. Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands, 1880-1918 \
Pieter M. Judson
7. Travel, Railroads, and Identity Formation in the Russian Empire \
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk
8. Germany and the Ottoman Borderlands: The Entwining of Imperial
Aspirations, Revolution, and Ethnic Violence \ Eric D. Weitz
9. The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the
Late Nineteenth Century \ Elke Hartmann
Part 3. Nationalizing the Borderlands
10. Borderland Encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and Their Impact on
Identity Formation \ Patrice M. Dabrowski
11. Mapping the Hungarian Borderlands \ Robert Nemes
12. A Strange Case of Antisemitism: Ivan Franko and the Jewish Issue \
Yaroslav Hrytsak
13. Nation State, Ethnic Conflict, and Refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 \
Tomas Balkelis
14. The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia
\ Taner Akçam
Part 4. Violence on the Borderlands
15. Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan
Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath \ Eyal Ginio
16. "Wiping out the Bulgar Race": Hatred, Duty, and National
Self-Fashioning in the Second Balkan War \ Keith Brown
17. Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide \ David Gaunt
18. Forms of Violence during the Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territory
and in Northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad), October 1914-December 1917 \
Peter Holquist
19. A "Zone of Violence": The Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Galicia in
1914-1915 and 1941 \ Alexander V. Prusin
20. Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: Krakivs'ki visti, the NKVD
Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation \ John-Paul Himka
21. Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz,
Eastern Galicia, 1941-1944 \ Omer Bartov
Part 5. Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity
22. Liquid Borderland, Inelastic Sea? Mapping the Eastern Adriatic \ Pamela
Ballinger
23. National Modernism in Post-Revolutionary Society: The Ukrainian
Renaissance and Jewish Revival, 1917-1930 \ Myroslav Shkandrij
24. Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence \ Paul Robert
Magocsi
25. Tremors in the Shatterzone of Empires: Eastern Galicia in Summer 1941 \
Kai Struve
26. Caught in Between: Border Regions in Modern Europe \ Philipp Ther
List of Contributors
Index