{"id":24654,"date":"2021-01-19T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24654"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:23:11","slug":"the-wars-of-yesterday-the-balkan-wars-and-the-emergence-of-modern-military-conflict-1912-13-edited-by-katrin-boeckh-and-sabine-rutar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=24654","title":{"rendered":"The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13. Edited by Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912\u20131913 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\u2014and subsequently against one another\u2014they 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 \u201cnew military history\u201d to revisit this critical episode with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians during wartime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u2022 Slavic Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u2022 U\u011fur \u00dcmit \u00dcng\u00f6r<\/strong>, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Katrin Boeckh<\/a><\/strong> 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 <em>Von den Balkankriegen zum Ersten Weltkrieg. <\/em><em>Kleinstaatenpolitik und ethnische Selbstbestimmung auf dem Balkan<\/em> (1996) and co-editor, with Sabine Rutar, of <em>The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Sabine Rutar<\/a><\/strong> is a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. She is Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly <em>S\u00fcdosteuropa: Journal of Politics and Society<\/em> and the author of <em>Kultur \u2013 Nation \u2013 Milieu: Sozialdemokratie in Triest vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/tocs\/BoeckhWars_toc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Tables<br>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART I: INTRODUCTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/BoeckhWars_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912\/13. An Introduction<\/a><br><em>Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 1. <\/strong>&#8216;Modern Wars&#8217; and &#8216;Backward Societies&#8217;: The Balkan Wars in the History of Twentieth-Century European Warfare<br><em>Wolfgang H\u00f6pken<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART II: BEYOND THE BALKANS: DIPLOMATIC AND GEOPOLITICAL ASPECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 2. <\/strong>Ottoman Diplomacy on the Origins of The Balkan Wars<br><em>G\u00fcl Tokay<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 3. <\/strong>Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Balkan Wars: A Diplomatic Struggle for Peace, Influence, and Supremacy<br><em>Alma Hannig<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 4. <\/strong>Not Just a Prelude: The First Balkan War Crisis as the Catalyst of Final European War Preparations<br><em>Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART III: ARMIES, SOLDIERS, IRREGULARS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 5. <\/strong>The Ottoman Mobilisation in the Balkan War. Failure and Reorganisation<br><em>Mehmet Be\u015fik\u00e7i<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 6. <\/strong>The Thracian Theatre of War 1912<br><em>Richard C. Hall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 7. <\/strong>Morale, Ideology, and the Barbarization of Warfare among Greek Soldiers<br><em>Spyridon Tsoutsoumpis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 8. <\/strong>A Forgotten Lesson: The Romanian Army between the Campaign in Bulgaria (1913) and the Tutrakan Debacle (1916)<br><em>Claudiu-Lucian Topor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 9. <\/strong>Serbian Chetniks. Traditions of Irregular Warfare<br><em>Alexey Timofeev<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PART IV: CIVILIANS, WOUNDED, INVALIDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 10. <\/strong>The Future Enemy\u2019s Soldiers-To-Be: Fear of War in Trieste, Austria-Hungary<br><em>Sabine Rutar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 11. <\/strong>The Plight of the Muslim Population in Salonica and Surrounding Areas<br><em>Vera Goseva and Natasha Kotlar-Traykova<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 12. <\/strong>Cleansing the Nation: War-Related Demographic Changes in Macedonia<br><em>Iakovos D. Michailidis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 13. <\/strong>Jewish Philanthropy and Mutual Assistance Between Ottomanism and Communal Identities<br><em>Eyal Ginio<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 14. <\/strong>The Assistance of the British Red Cross to the Ottoman Empire<br><em>Oya Da\u011flar Macar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 15. <\/strong>War Neurosis and Psychiatry in the Aftermath of the Balkan Wars<br><em>Heike Karge<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br><em>Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>446 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN&nbsp; 978-1-78533-774-1 $135.00\/\u00a399.00 Hb Published (January 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN\u00a0 978-1-78920-843-6 $29.95\/\u00a323.95 Pb Published (December 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BoeckhWars\">https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BoeckhWars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BoeckhWars.jpg?fit=400%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24656,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654\/revisions\/24656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}