The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

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This highly readable and thoroughly researched volume offers an excellent account of the development of seven Balkan peoples during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries. Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich have brought their rich knowledge of the Albanians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Greeks, Romanians, Serbians, and Slovenes to bear on every aspect of the area�s history--political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural. It took more than a century after the first Balkan uprising, that of the Serbians in 1804, for the Balkan people to free themselves from Ottoman and Habsburg rule. The Serbians and the Greeks were the first to do so; the Albanians, the Croatians, and the Slovenes the last. For each people the national revival took its own form and independence was achieved in its own way. The authors explore the contrasts and similarities among the peoples, within the context of the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Cover The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804–1920 Title Copyright Contents 1. The Ottoman Background 2. The Serbian Revolution 3. The Greek Revolution 4. The Autonomous Serbian State 5. The Greek Kingdom 6. Wallachia and Moldavia before 1833 7. The Ottoman Empire to 1876: the Reforms 8. The United Principalities to 1876 9. The Bulgarian National Movement to 1876 10. The Crisis of the Seventies 11. Autonomous Bulgaria to 1896 12. The Balkan States: Internal Political Developments to 1914 13. The Expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Europe 14. The Establishment of Albania 15. Balkan Nationalities in the Habsburg Empire 16. Balkan Cultural Developments 17. The First World War 18. The Postwar Settlements 19. Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Index