Focusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War I

Timothy Snyder, Katherine Younger

Introduction
Balkan Initiatives to Make Europe: Two Cases from Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia
The Homeland as Terra Incognita: Geography and Bulgarian National Identity, 1830s-1870s
Liberation in Progress: Bulgarian Nationalism and Political Economy in a Balkan Perspective, 1878-1912
Emigrants and Countries of Origin: The Politics of Emigration in Southeastern Europe until the First World War
The Quiet Revolution: Consuls and the International System in the Nineteenth Century
The Hollow Crown: Civil and Military Relations during Serbia's "Golden Age," 1903-1914
List of Contributors
Index