By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. A series of essays reassessing the causes and results of the Sarajevo murders of June The book especially seeks to explore the wider Balkan and international contexts, with contributions from historians from different disciplinary approaches.
It also argues for the South Slav Question as a cause of the First World War due to the prominence given to this in the thinking of the Habsburg elite. Despite its deceptively catch-all and inconspicuous title, Sarajevo Sparking the First World War offers the reader an original, perceptive, and stimulating assessment of the much-discussed but too often poorly understood contextβboth local and internationalβthat preceded and followed the events of 28 June Bosnia remains a divided country both politically, and in the representation and memorialisation of the past.
This paper is based on fieldwork in Sarajevo at the hundredth anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination widely seen as the catalyst for the First World War. The antithetical, competing commemorations of this historical event tell us a great deal about the political fractures of Bosnia and the region. They also offer insights into the significance of historical memory in the stubborn reiteration of contemporary identities.
The authors in the work deal with the trial process against members of the Young Bosnia for the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Chotek in Sarajevo That issue attends scientific and lay public attention over the hundred years.
Authors divided their article into few parts. After the introductory remarks they explain conditions in the country before the assassination, especially problem of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's annexation and its ratification within the Austro-Hungarian legislation.
