Taming Balkan Nationalism
The Habsburg 'Civilizing Mission' in Bosnia, 1878-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9800073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marko Attila Hoare (Kingston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 511 |
| Pages | 1526-1528 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cep278 |
| OpenAlex | W1998380481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Bosnia-Herzegovina was under Austro-Hungarian rule from 1878 to 1918, and this period exerts a particular attraction for historians of the country. It was a period of apparent progress, when modern politics were born; when great advances were made in industrialisation, education and culture; when many of the country's most noteworthy buildings were constructed; and when a bright future for Bosnia seemed possible. And it is a period for which extensive, easily accessible archival material is available. With Robin Okey's contribution to the topic, the English-language reader now has an overview both broad in its sweep and rich in detail; a fine introduction, combining original primary research with a synthesis of the existing literature. Okey's concern is the ideology of Bosnia's Habsburg regime; the response to it of the Bosnians; and the dynamic between the two. Unlike perhaps most historians of Habsburg Bosnia, his perspective is predominantly neither one of sympathy with, nor hostility to, the regime, and his conclusions are consequently even-handed. He offers a balanced assessment of the successes and failures of the Habsburg ‘civilising mission’, questioning the popular view that the life of Habsburg Bosnia's most infamous child—Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered the First World War—should be taken as proof of the failure of Habsburg policy in the country. While the regime's legitimacy in the eyes of politically conscious Bosnians was crumbling by the war's outbreak in 1914, and while most of them were discontented with the status quo to a greater or lesser degree, few were as completely and murderously hostile as Princip and his fellow radical terrorists. Okey suggests that others, such as the nationalistic but urbane Bosnian Serb historian Vladimir Ćorović, were more emblematic of the generation of young Bosnians who grew up and were educated under the Habsburg regime
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |