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Peace Handbooks Issued by Historical Section of the Foreign Office Vol III.: Balkan States

Peace Handbooks Issued by Historical Section of the Foreign Office Vol III.: Balkan States

Paperback

AnthropologyEastern European HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 9353605032
ISBN13: 9789353605032
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 668
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On the eve of the great peace settlements, the Balkans were the faultline of a shaken continent. History turned on these pages. This authoritative historical reference handbook on the Balkan States, edited by G. W. Prothero for the Historical Section of the British Foreign Office, offers a rare primary source document for understanding the early 20th century Balkans, their complex peoples, shifting frontiers and competing national claims at a decisive moment in European diplomatic history. Drawing together political, economic and ethnographic detail, the volume illuminates balkan states history in the years surrounding the Balkan Wars and provides essential world war one background. It stands as a finely crafted foreign office report that has become a foundational sourcebook for historians and an anchor for any academic research collection concerned with prewar Europe politics, balkan wars scholarship or british diplomatic history. Accessible yet rigorous, it rewards students, researchers and general readers who want to see how policymakers of the time mapped a region whose tensions would reshape Europe. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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