Blood ties: religion, violence, and the politics of nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878-1908

The region that is today the Republic of Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

It was home to a mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace, although they were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents.

In this book, the author explains the origins of this shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social history of the 'Macedonian Question.'