Download or read book History of the Balkans: Volume 1 written by Barbara Jelavich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-07-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day.