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 ...

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, ...