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|Nation and State Building in Nineteenth Century Bosnia and Herzegovina[1] |
|An Inverted Principle |
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|Sheila Osmanovic |
|PhD Candidate | University of East London, UK |
|E-mail address for correspondence: sheila.gmx@gmail.com |
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|Abstract |
|Nineteenth century Bosnia and Herzegovina became the principal early battleground for the clash between absolute Ottoman centralisation and the |
|local Bosnian autonomy, a status that she maintained throughout Ottoman rule and fought to preserve against Ottoman reforms. The decline of the |
|Ottoman Empire gave rise to the various ethno-nationalisms...