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The wars before the Great War : conflict and international politics before the outbreak of the First World War /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Geppert, Dominik, 1970- (Editor), Mulligan, William, 1975- (Editor), Rose, Andreas, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Balkan Peninsula > History > War of 1912-1913.
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912.
World politics > 1900-1918.
Table of 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.