1st Edition

The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations

By Hannes Grandits Copyright 2020
394 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the end of four centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1870s. After an introduction to the region and the political zeitgeist of the late 1860s and early 1870s, it examines in detail the dramatic years beginning in the summer of 1875, when the outbreak of violent unrest in the eastern Herzegovinian region bordering Montenegro led to a massive refugee... Read more

List of illustrations

List of maps

Notes on language, transliteration and toponyms

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

1. Townsmen, peasants and the reformed society in Ottoman Bosnia

2. Upholding stability in the Bosnian Vilayet in turbulent political times

3. Crisis at Ottoman-Montenegrin borders escalates (1874/75)

4. Efforts for pacification and refugee return – and its obstruction in early 1876

5. Principalities’ anti-Ottoman War and Ottoman constitutionalists’ breakthrough

6. The Bosnian Vilayet during the devastating Russian-Ottoman War of 1877/8

7. The making of a new imperialistic order in the Orient/the Bosnian Vilayet

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.