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The Wars of Yesterday : The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13 / ed. by Sabine Rutar, Katrin Boeckh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785337741
  • 9781785337758
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  • 940.5 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introductions -- The Wars of Yesterday The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912/13 An Introduction -- 1 ‘Modern Wars’ and ‘Backward Societies’ The Balkan Wars in the History of Twentieth-Century European Warfare -- Part II Beyond the Balkans: Diplomatic and Geopolitical Aspects -- 2 Ottoman Diplomacy on the Origins of the Balkan Wars -- 3 Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Balkan Wars A Diplomatic Struggle for Peace, Influence and Supremacy -- 4 Not Just a Prelude The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations -- Part III Armies, Soldiers, Irregulars -- 5 The Ottoman Mobilization in the Balkan War Failure and Reorganization -- 6 The Thracian Theatre of War 1912 -- 7 Morale, Ideology and the Barbarization of Warfare among Greek Soldiers -- 8 A Forgotten Lesson The Romanian Army between the Campaign in Bulgaria (1913) and the Tutrakan Debacle (1916) -- 9 Serbian Chetniks Traditions of Irregular Warfare -- Part IV Civilians, Wounded, Invalids -- 10 The Future Enemy’s Soldiers-To-Be Fear of War in Trieste, Austria-Hungary -- 11 The Plight of the Muslim Population in Salonica and Surrounding Areas -- 12 Cleansing the Nation War-Related Demographic Changes in Macedonia -- 13 Jewish Philanthropy and Mutual Assistance Between Ottomanism and Communal Identities -- 14 The Assistance of the British Red Cross to the Ottoman Empire -- 15 War Neurosis and Psychiatry in the Aftermath of the Balkan Wars -- Conclusion Bringing the Balkan Wars into Historiographic Debates -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introductions -- The Wars of Yesterday The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912/13 An Introduction -- 1 ‘Modern Wars’ and ‘Backward Societies’ The Balkan Wars in the History of Twentieth-Century European Warfare -- Part II Beyond the Balkans: Diplomatic and Geopolitical Aspects -- 2 Ottoman Diplomacy on the Origins of the Balkan Wars -- 3 Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Balkan Wars A Diplomatic Struggle for Peace, Influence and Supremacy -- 4 Not Just a Prelude The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations -- Part III Armies, Soldiers, Irregulars -- 5 The Ottoman Mobilization in the Balkan War Failure and Reorganization -- 6 The Thracian Theatre of War 1912 -- 7 Morale, Ideology and the Barbarization of Warfare among Greek Soldiers -- 8 A Forgotten Lesson The Romanian Army between the Campaign in Bulgaria (1913) and the Tutrakan Debacle (1916) -- 9 Serbian Chetniks Traditions of Irregular Warfare -- Part IV Civilians, Wounded, Invalids -- 10 The Future Enemy’s Soldiers-To-Be Fear of War in Trieste, Austria-Hungary -- 11 The Plight of the Muslim Population in Salonica and Surrounding Areas -- 12 Cleansing the Nation War-Related Demographic Changes in Macedonia -- 13 Jewish Philanthropy and Mutual Assistance Between Ottomanism and Communal Identities -- 14 The Assistance of the British Red Cross to the Ottoman Empire -- 15 War Neurosis and Psychiatry in the Aftermath of the Balkan Wars -- Conclusion Bringing the Balkan Wars into Historiographic Debates -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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