6/ REVIEW: Hannes GRANDITS, The end of Ottoman rule in Bosnia: conflicting agencies and imperial appropriations, London, Routledge, 2023, 394 pp.
di Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 61, |2025
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REVIEW: Hannes GRANDITS, The end of Ottoman rule in Bosnia: conflicting agencies and imperial appropriations, London, Routledge, 2023, 394 pp.
By contextualizing local political and socioeconomic processes within a larger regional and supraregional framework, Grandits’ book explores the events that occurred in Ottoman Bosnia in the lead-up to and during the 1875–1878 crisis. The underlying thesis of the book is that local and regional changes in the Bosnian Vilayet cannot be fully understood if they are examined in isolation from broader political processes. However, without really delving into the intricate local rationalities at play, it is equally difficult to comprehend the more general political dynamics. Therefore, the author employs a dialectical spatial perspective in examining developments in Bosnian region from 1875 to 1878, emphasizing the connections of local space to regional and global space, and vice versa. I examine the contradictory dynamics of extremely violent local conflicts (which, on closer examination, were embedded in very specific local/regional logics) and at the same time, I will show how these conflicts quickly became part of larger power contexts. New groups of actors with different backgrounds and interests emerged and competed for influence to shape their political agenda. In the following three years, this conflict could not be contained, despite constant attempts to do so. A local affair was to develop into a regional conflict that involved more and more “players” – ultimately also almost all the major European Powers. […]
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Gianfranco Bria is Maria Skłodowska Curie global Fellow and Faculty at Roma Tre University; he is also Adjunct Professor of Islamic Law at Sapienza University of Rome and Associate Member of the Centre d’études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research deals with Islamic authority, sainthood and charisma in the Balkans, Islamic/Sufi networks and the history of Sufism in southern-eastern Europe since the late Ottoman Empire.
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BRIA, Gianfranco, «REVIEW: Hannes GRANDITS, The end of Ottoman rule in Bosnia: conflicting agencies and imperial appropriations, London, Routledge, 2023, 394 pp.», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 61, 1|2025
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2025/03/29/bria_numero_61/>
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«REVIEW: Hannes GRANDITS, The end of Ottoman rule in Bosnia: conflicting agencies and imperial appropriations, London, Routledge, 2023, 394 pp.» by Gianfranco Bria / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Unported.
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