2025/12/04 by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, William Connor
#19th century #Austria-Hungary #Bosnia and Herzegovina #Budapest #Bukovina #Civilization Mission (colonial practice) #Colonialism #Colonialism research #Colony (dependent territory) #History of eastern europe #Imperialism #Kingdom of Hungary #Parliament #Post-colonial studies #Research on historical stereotypes #imperiale Reichsbildung
paper · doi:10.25355/ff0b-rz07
Historians have struggled to interpret the colonial status of Bosnia-Herzegovina, because the Habsburg Empire itself officially denied the idea of any colonization. This paper argues that MPs in the Hungarian sub-empire unanimously thought of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a colony between 1878 and 1918.