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The Wars of Yesterday -

The Wars of Yesterday

The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13

Katrin Boeckh, Sabine Rutar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
446 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-843-6 (ISBN)
CHF 69,95 inkl. MwSt
Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.
Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire—and subsequently against one another—they anticipated many of the horrors of twentieth-century warfare even as they produced the tense regional politics that helped spark World War I. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this volume applies the social and cultural insights of the “new military history” to revisit this critical episode with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians during wartime.

Katrin Boeckh is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and a Professor for East and Southeast European History at the LMU Munich. She is the author of Von den Balkankriegen zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Kleinstaatenpolitik und ethnische Selbstbestimmung auf dem Balkan (1996) and co-editor, with Sabine Rutar, of The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory (2017).

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Acknowledgements



PART I: INTRODUCTIONS



Introduction: The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912/13. An Introduction

Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar



Chapter 1. 'Modern Wars' and 'Backward Societies': The Balkan Wars in the History of Twentieth-Century European Warfare

Wolfgang Höpken



PART II: BEYOND THE BALKANS: DIPLOMATIC AND GEOPOLITICAL ASPECTS



Chapter 2. Ottoman Diplomacy on the Origins of The Balkan Wars

Gül Tokay



Chapter 3. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Balkan Wars: A Diplomatic Struggle for Peace, Influence, and Supremacy

Alma Hannig



Chapter 4. Not Just a Prelude: The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations

Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen



PART III: ARMIES, SOLDIERS, IRREGULARS



Chapter 5. The Ottoman Mobilisation in the Balkan War. Failure and Reorganisation

Mehmet Beşikçi



Chapter 6. The Thracian Theatre of War 1912

Richard C. Hall



Chapter 7. Morale, Ideology, and the Barbarization of Warfare among Greek Soldiers

Spyridon Tsoutsoumpis



Chapter 8. A Forgotten Lesson: The Romanian Army between the Campaign in Bulgaria (1913) and the Tutrakan Debacle (1916)

Claudiu-Lucian Topor



Chapter 9. Serbian Chetniks. Traditions of Irregular Warfare

Alexey Timofeev



PART IV: CIVILIANS, WOUNDED, INVALIDS



Chapter 10. The Future Enemy’s Soldiers-To-Be: Fear of War in Trieste, Austria-Hungary

Sabine Rutar



Chapter 11. The Plight of the Muslim Population in Salonica and Surrounding Areas

Vera Goseva and Natasha Kotlar-Traykova



Chapter 12. Cleansing the Nation: War-Related Demographic Changes in Macedonia

Iakovos D. Michailidis



Chapter 13. Jewish Philanthropy and Mutual Assistance Between Ottomanism and Communal Identities

Eyal Ginio



Chapter 14. The Assistance of the British Red Cross to the Ottoman Empire

Oya Dağlar Macar



Chapter 15. War Neurosis and Psychiatry in the Aftermath of the Balkan Wars

Heike Karge



Conclusion

Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar



Index

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 4 Illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78920-843-2 / 1789208432
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-843-6 / 9781789208436
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