Shatterzone of empires : coexistence and violence in the German Habsburg Russian and Ottoman borderlands Introduction : coexistence and violence in the German Habsburg Russian and Ottoman borderlands Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz The travelers view of Central Europe : gradual transitions and degrees of difference in European borderlands Larry Wolff Megalomania and angst : the nineteenth century mythicization of Germanys eastern borderlands Gregor Thum Between empire and nation state : an outline for a European contemporary history of the Jews 1750 1950 Dan Diner Jews and others in vilna Wino Vilnius : invisible neighbors 1831 1948 Theodore R. Weeks Our laws our taxes and our administration : citizenship in imperial Austria Gary B. Cohen Marking national space on the Habsburg Austrian borderlands 1880 1918 Pieter M. Judson Travel railroads and identity formation in the Russian empire Frithjof Benjamin Schenk Germany and the Ottoman borderlands : the entwining of imperial aspirations revolution and ethnic violence Eric D. Weitz The central state in the borderlands : Ottoman eastern Anatolia in the late nineteenth century Elke Hartmann Borderland encounters in the Carpathian Mountains and their impact on identity formation Patrice M. Dabrowski Mapping the hungarian borderlands Robert Nemes A strange case of antisemitism : Ivan Franko and the Jewish issue Yaroslav Hrytsak Nation state ethnic conflict and refugees in Lithuania 1939 1940 Tomas Balkelis The Young Turks and the plans for the ethnic homogenization of Anatolia Taner Akçam Paving the way for ethnic cleansing : eastern Thrace during the Balkan wars (1912 1913) and their aftermath Eyal Ginio Wiping out the Bulgur race : hatred duty and national self fashioning in the Second Balkan War Keith Brown Failed identity and the Assyrian genocide David Gaunt Forms of violence during the Russian occupation of Ottoman territory and in northern Persia (Urmia and Astrabad) October 1914 December 1917 Peter Holquist A zone of violence : the anti Jewish pogroms in eastern Galicia in 1914 1915 and 1941 Alexander V. Prusin Ethnicity and the reporting of mass murder : Krakvis[p]ki Visti the NKVD murders of 1941 and the Vinnytsia exhumation John Paul Himka Communal genocide : personal accounts of the destruction of Buczacz eastern Galicia 1941 1944 Omer Bartov Liquid borderland inelastic sea : mapping the eastern Adriatic Pamela Ballinger National modernism in post revolutionary society : the Ukrainian renaissance and Jewish revival 1917 1930 Myroslav Shkandrij Carpathian Rus[p] : interethnic coexistence without violence Paul Robert Magocsi Tremors in the shatterzone of empires : eastern Galicia in summer 1941 Kai Struve Caught in between : border regions in modern Europe Philipp Ther