Looks at Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Centuries when the great empires were crumbling and the peoples of Europe turned to nationhood to instil security and a sense of belonging. Ethnic nationalism was beginning to get dangerous, especially along the eastern edge of Europe, and the crumbling Ottoman Empire, which had lasted almost 600 years. In Turkey, the reign of the tyrannical sultans was swept away, and replaced in 1908 by a group known as the Young Turks, a group of military men who no longer saw the empire as a priority.
