The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory

The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory edited by Katrin Boeckh, Sabine Rutar.

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these “short” wars profoundly changed the sociopolitical situation in the Balk...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Boeckh, Katrin (Editor), Rutar, Sabine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Europe—History—1492-.
Russia—History.
Europe, Eastern—History.
Historiography.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar, The Balkan Wars from Perception to Remembrance
  • Part I: War in the Balkans – Towards the End of Empire
  • 2 Fikret Adanır, Ethnonationalism, Irredentism, and Empire
  • 3 Edvin Pezo, Violence, Forced Migration, and Population Policies during and after the Balkan Wars (1912–14)
  • 4 Daut Dauti, Gjergj Fishta, the “Albanian Homer”, and Edith Durham, the “Albanian Mountain Queen”. Observers of Albania’s Road to Statehood
  • 5 Katrin Boeckh, The Rebirth of Pan-Slavism in the Russian Empire, 1912–13
  • Part II: European Eyes on the Balkans – Reassuring the Self
  • 6 Nicolas Pitsos, Marianne Staring at the Balkans on Fire. French Views and Perceptions of the 1912–13 Conflicts
  • 7 Florian Keisinger, The Irish Question and the Balkan Crisis
  • 8 Stjepan Matković, Political Narratives in Croatia in the Face of War in the Balkans
  • 9 Günther Sandner, Deviationist Perceptions of the Balkan Wars. Leon Trotsky and Otto Neurath
  • Part III: Memories of Victory and Defeat – Constructing the Nation
  • 10 Svetlozar Eldarov & Bisser Petrov, Bulgarian Historiography on the Balkan Wars 1912–13
  • 11 Stefan Rohdewald, Religious Wars? Southern Slavs’ Orthodox Memory of the Balkan and World Wars
  • 12 Dubravka Stojanović, The Balkan Wars in Serbian History Textbooks (1920–2013)
  • 13 Petar Todorov, From Bucharest 1913 to Bucharest 2008. The Image of the Balkan Wars in Macedonian Historiography and Public Discourse
  • 14 Eugene Michail, The Balkan Wars in Western Historiography, 1912–2012
  • Index .

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