Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Multi-national Empires of Central and Eastern Europe (1x27)

Date de diffusion: Avr 06, 1998

In the first decade of the new century, the polyglot Habsburg and Ottoman empires found themselves facing grave challenges from subject nationalities in the mountainous, volatile Balkan Peninsula and southeastern Europe. The crisis that erupted over Bosnia in 1908–09 was defused but not before furnishing a sinister hint of things to come.