The wars before the Great War : conflict and international politics before the outbreak of the First World War / edited by Dominik Geppert, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, William Mulligan, University College Dublin, and Andreas Rose, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geppert, Dominik, 1970- editor.

Mulligan, William, 1975- editor.

Rose, Andreas, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912.

World politics--1900-1918.

World politics.

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

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 378 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1911 and 1914, the conflicts between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, together with the Balkan wars that followed, transformed European politics. With contributions from leading, international historians, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the wars before the Great War and surveys the impact of these conflicts on European diplomacy, military planning, popular opinion and their role in undermining international stability in the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. Placing these conflicts at the centre of European history, the authors provide fresh insights on the origins of World War I, emphasizing the importance of developments on the European periphery in driving change across the continent. Nation and empire, great powers and small states, Christian and Muslim, violent and peaceful, civilized and barbaric - the book evaluates core issues which defined European politics to show how they were encapsulated in the wars before the Great War.

Contents:

Introduction / William Mulligan, Andreas Rose, Dominik Geppert

Part I. The belligerents

Italy, Libya and the Balkans / Francesco Caccomo

The Italian soldiers' experience in Libya, 1911-12 / Vanda Wilcox

Ottoman diplomacy, the Balkan Wars, and the great powers / Gul Tokay

Mass violence against civilians during the Balkan Wars / Ugur Ungor Umit

War, civic mobilization and the shaping of the Ottoman home-front during the Balkan Wars (1912-13) / Eyal Ginio

Civil and military relations in Serbia during 1903-1914 / John Paul Newman

The great expectations: political visions, military preparation, and national upsurge in Bulgaria at the onset of the Balkan Wars / Nikolai Vukov

Part II. The European military between real and imagined wars

The Russian threat calculation, 1910-1914 / Bruce Menning

The French military mind and the wars before the war / Adrian Wettstein

The perception of the "wars before the wars" in Austria-Hungary / Gunther Kronenbitter

Between Manchuria and the Marne. the German army and its perception of the military conflicts of 1911-1914 / Markus Poehlmann

Part III. The wars and great power politics

Austria-Hungarian foreign policy and the Balkan Wars / Alma Hannig

German foreign policy and the Balkan Wars, 1912-4 / Patrick Bormann

Entente diplomacy v. détente, 1911-1914 / T.G. Otte

Anglo-French relations and the wars before the war / Friedrich Kiessling

Part IV. The wars in the European public sphere

The Habsburg Empire's German speaking public sphere and the First Balkan War / Tamara Scheer

From "illusion" and "angellism" to détente: British radicals and the Balkan Wars / Andreas Rose

Uncivilised wars in civilised Europe? The perception of the Balkan Wars 1912/13 in English, German, and Irish newspapers and journals / Florian Keisinger

Socialism and the challenge of the Balkan Wars 1912/13 / Wolfgang Kruse.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-28868-4

1-316-32277-7

1-316-30939-8

1-316-32945-3

1-316-32611-X

1-316-33279-9

1-316-31941-5

1-107-47814-6