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 ...

A few old fogies may recall that the last such crisis, in the summer of 1914, led to a certain amount of unpleasantness, not entirely contained within Balkan boundaries. To grasp what is at risk ...

The Western Balkans—comprising Bosnia and Herzegovina ... of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, sparked World War I. In that light, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

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, ...