Blood Ties

(Cornell University Press) The region known today as Macedonia, once at the center of the Ottoman Empire, was home to diverse groups of people who had co-existed for centuries in relative peace. Why did the region shift in the late 19th century from sporadic violence to systemic conflict that continued throughout the 20th century? In Blood Ties, Yosmaoğlu draws on the region’s social history and examinations of the “Macedonian Question” to offer an explanation. Yosmaoğlu is an assistant professor of history at Northwestern University.