The wars of yesterday : the Balkan Wars and the emergence of modern military conflicts, 1912-13 / edited by Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boeckh, Katrin, editor.

Rutar, Sabine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balkan Peninsula--History--War of 1912-1913.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2018.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

'Modern wars' and 'backward societies' : the Balkan Wars in the history of twentieth-century European warfare / Wolfgang Höpken

Ottoman diplomacy on the origins of the Balkan Wars / Gül Tokay

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Balkan Wars : a diplomatic struggle for peace, influence, and supremacy / Alma Hannig

Not Just a prelude : the First Balkan War crisis as the catalyst of final European war preparations / Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen

The Ottoman mobilisation in the Balkan War. failure and reorganisation / Mehmet Beşikçi

The Thracian Theatre of War 1912 / Richard C. Hall

Morale, ideology, and the barbarization of warfare among Greek soldiers / Spyridon Tsoutsoumpis

A forgotten lesson : the Romanian Army between the campaign in Bulgaria (1913) and the Tutrakan Debacle (1916) / Claudiu-Lucian Topor

Serbian Chetniks. traditions of irregular warfare / Alexey Timofeev

The future enemy's soldiers-to-be : fear of war in Trieste, Austria-Hungary / Sabine Rutar

The plight of the Muslim population in Salonica and surrounding areas / Vera Goseva and Natasha Kotlar-Traykova

Cleansing the nation : war-related demographic changes in Macedonia / Iakovos D. Michailidis

Jewish philanthropy and mutual assistance between Ottomanism and communal identities / Eyal Ginio

The assistance of the British Red Cross to the Ottoman Empire / Oya Dağlar Macar

War neurosis and psychiatry in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars / Heike Karge

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 20, 2018).

ISBN:

1-80758-163-2

1-78920-843-2