Although Irish nationalists (and unionists) shied away from the use of violence before 1914, the Balkan wars reinforced the relationship between violence and nation-building in the early twentieth ...

Before the First Balkan War between the Balkan League and ... or risk losing all its influence in the region. In 1914 this would have unforeseen, and incalculable, consequences.

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 9780802123893 Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo, and the Shaping of the Modern Balkans Trigger is a combination of causes and events leading up to WW1, ...