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Zusatztext “This is a well-curated and well-intended collection of essays. The editors and contributors have brought considerable knowledge and insight of the Balkan wars into the mainstreams of the New Military History. The collective linguistic and research scope of the contributors is comprehensive. Students and scholars of southeastern Europe will read these essays with profit, but it is the fields of European and global war studies that will benefit most from this excellent volume.” • Slavic Review “This excellent volume is a timely addition to the literature on the Balkan Wars and beyond. Its versatility, diversity, and empirical depth are bound to make a serious impact in the field.” • Ugur Ümit Üngör , Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Informationen zum Autor Katrin Boeckh is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and a Professor for East and Southeast European History at the LMU Munich. She is the author of Von den Balkankriegen zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Kleinstaatenpolitik und ethnische Selbstbestimmung auf dem Balkan (1996) and co-editor, with Sabine Rutar, of The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory (2017). Sabine Rutar is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. She is Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Südosteuropa: Journal of Politics and Society and the author of Kultur – Nation – Milieu: Sozialdemokratie in Triest vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (2004). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912-13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars' history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Introduction: The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912/13. An Introduction Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar Chapter 1. 'Modern Wars' and 'Backward Societies': The Balkan Wars in the History of Twentieth-Century European Warfare Wolfgang Höpken PART II: BEYOND THE BALKANS: DIPLOMATIC AND GEOPOLITICAL ASPECTS Chapter 2. Ottoman Diplomacy on the Origins of The Balkan Wars Gül Tokay Chapter 3. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Balkan Wars: A Diplomatic Struggle for Peace, Influence, and Supremacy Alma Hannig Chapter 4. Not Just a Prelude: The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen PART III: ARMIES, SOLDIERS, IRREGULARS Chapter 5. The Ottoman Mobilisation in the Balkan War. Failure and Reorganisation Mehmet Besikçi Chapter 6. The Thracian Theatre of War 1912 Richard C. Hall Chapter 7. Morale, Ideology, and the Barbarization of Warfare among Greek Soldiers Spyridon Tsoutsou...
