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Zusatztext This second and enlarged edition of Baumgart’s The Crimean War offers a magisterial survey ... Baumgart’s mastery of the sources allows him to offer an analysis of the course of events that is nuanced and aware of the appropriate contexts ... excellent and strongly to be recommended. Informationen zum Autor Winfried Baumgart is Professor Emeritus at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz! Germany. He is the author of 31 books in German and English! including Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion! 1880-1914 (1982) and The Peace of Paris! 1856: Studies in War Diplomacy and Peacemaking (1981). A masterful historical survey of the Crimean War by a world-renowned subject expert, now up-to-date and expanded to include further coverage of everyday life during the conflict. Zusammenfassung Winfried Baumgart’s masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book’s first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics.With 19 images, 13 maps and additional tables as well as a brand new chapters on 'the medical services', this expanded and fully-updated 2nd edition explores* The origins and diplomacy of the Crimean War* The war aims and general attitudes of the belligerent powers (Russia, France, and Britain), non-belligerent German powers (Austria and Prussia) and a selected number of neutral powers, including the United States* The characteristics and capabilities of the armies involved* The nature of the fighting itself The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy.This book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ImagesList of MapsGeneral Editor’s PrefacePreface to 1st EditionPreface to 2nd Edition Part 1 - Origins and Diplomacy of the War 1. The Real Cause of the War – the Eastern Question2. Diplomacy during the War, 1853-56 Part 2 - The Belligerents and the Non-Belligerents 3. The War Aims of the Belligerents4. The Non-Belligerent German Powers: Austria and Prussia5. The Neutral Powers Part 3 - The Armies of the Belligerents 6. Russia7. France8. Great Britain9. Turkey10. Sardinia Part 4 - The War 11. The Danube Front, 1853-5412. The Black Sea Theatre13. The Campaigns in the Baltic, 1854 and 185514. The Caucasian Battlefield, 1853-185515. The Minor Theatres of War: The White Sea and the Pacific16. Allied War Preparations for 1856 and the War Council in Paris, January 185617. The Medical Services Part 5 - The End of the War 18. The Paris Peace Congress, February-April 185619. The Results of the War for International RelationsAnnotated BibliographyBibliographical IndexGeneral Index...
