Ottoman Road to War in 1914 - The Ottoman Empire and the First World War

Informationen zum Autor Mustafa Aksakal is Associate Professor of History and Modern Turkish Studies at Georgetown University. Klappentext Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire's fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914. Zusammenfassung Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War! months after the war's devastations had become clear? Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond the war minister! Enver Pasha! and that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism; 1. The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan wars; 2. 1914: war with Greece?; 3. The Ottomans within the international order; 4. The Great War as great opportunity: the Ottoman July crisis; 5. Tug of war: Penelope's game; 6. Salvation through war?; Conclusion: the decision for war remembered.

Product details

• Authors: Mustafa Aksakal, Mustafa (Associate Professor Aksakal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521175258
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17525-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous