Shatterzone of Empires

Acknowledgements Introduction: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands - Omer Bartov and Eric D. WeitzI. Imagining the Borderlands; 1. The Traveler's View of Central Europe: Gradual Transitions and Degrees of Difference in European Borderlands - Larry Wolff; 2. Megalomania and Angst: The Nineteenth-Century Mythicization of Germany's Eastern Borderlands - Gregor Thum; 3. Between Empire and Nation-State: An Outline for a European Contemporary History of the Jews, 1750-1950 - Dan Diner; 4. Jews and Others in Vilna-Wino-Vilnius: Invisible Neighbors, 1831-1948 - Theodore R. WeeksII. Imperial Borderlands; 5. Our Laws, Our Taxes, and Our Administration: Citizenship in Imperial Austria - Gary B. Cohen; 6. Marking National Space on the Habsburg Austrian Borderlands, 1890-1918 - Pieter M. Judson; 7. Travel, Railroads, and Identity Formation in the Habsburg Empire - Fritjof Benjamin Schenk; 8. Germany in the Ottoman Borderlands: The Entwining of Imperial Aspirations, Revolution, and Ethnic Violence - Eric D. Weitz; 9. The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century - Elke HartmannIII. Nationalizing the Borderlands; 10. Borderland Encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and Their Impact on Identity Formation - Patrice M. Dabrowski; 11. Mapping the Hungarian Borderlands - Robert Nemes; 12. A Strange Case of Antisemitism: Ivan Franko and the Jewish Issue - Yaroslav Hrytsak; 13. Nation-State, Ethnic Conflict, and Refugees in Lithuania, 1939-1940 - Tomas Balkelis; 14. The Young Turks and the Plans for the Ethnic Homogenization of Anatolia - Taner AkcamIV. Violence on the Borderlands; 15. Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath - Eyal Ginio; 16. "Wiping out the Bulgur Race": Hatred, Duty and National Self-Fashioning in the Second Balkan War - Keith Brown; 17. Failed Identity and the Assyrian Genocide - David Gaunt; 18. Forms of Violence during the Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territory and in Northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad), October 1914 - December 1917 - Peter Holquist; 19. A "Zone of Violence": The Anti-Jewish Pogroms in East Galicia in 1914-1915 and 1941 - Alexander V. Prusin; 20. Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: Kravis'ki visti, the NKVD Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation - John-Paul Himka; 21. Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-1944 - Omer BartovV. Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity; 22. Liquid Borderland, Inelastic Sea? Mapping the Eastern Adriatic - Pamela Ballinger; 23. National Modernism in Post-Revolutionary Society: The Ukrainian Renaissance and Jewish Revival, 1917-30 - Myroslav Shkandrij; 24. Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence - Paul Robert Magocsi; 25. The Explosion of Violence: The Pogrom of Summer 1941 - Kai Struve; 26. Caught in Between: Border Regions in Modern Europe - Philipp TherIndex