Durch Bosnien und die Hercegovina kreuz und quer

Heinrich Renners travelogue was published 14 years after Austria-Hungary had occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the mandate of the Berlin Treaty of 1878. When Renner in 1892 describes the effects of this annexation he himself speaks of an achievement unprecedented in colonial history - a wording which classifies the annexation as one particular phenomenon of the political main-stream as it shaped the entire epoch of European politics: the global competition of the European powers for colonial territories.