Download or read book The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula written by Alexandru Madgearu and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history. Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states-prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies-then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Balkan Wars 1912 1913 written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913." by Jacob Gould Schurman. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Balkan Wars written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that the Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe?" It was a term devised in the early 20th century to describe the unstable political situation in the region just before it exploded into a conflict known as the First World War. The Balkan Wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro) and its allies and the Ottoman Empire. But these wars didn't involve any of the great European powers such as Germany, France, or the United Kingdom. This is what makes them less known, but they were crucial for the development of the European political scene. The Balkan Wars were first fought for ethnic groups that were ruled by the Ottoman Empire so they could gain their complete independence and expand their territory. Looking up to the successful western states, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece wanted to achieve national states with a territory that would gather all their ethnic brothers into one state. But the legacy of the Ottoman Empire lives on in the multiethnic hodgepodge of the Balkan Peninsula. Unlike Westerners, the Ottomans considered their faith to be the uniting factor, not the idea of belonging to a nation. This belief created the complex situation in the Balkans that lasts to this day. To understand this part of Europe, one must look into the past and understand the obscure and complex conflicts that are known as the Balkan Wars. This book will take you into the past and show you how it all started, from the creation of the Balkan League to the Bucharest Peace Conference. Read Captivating History's The Balkan Wars to understand the origins of the conflict, as well as: The national aspirations of the Balkan people How Bulgaria gained independence just to lose it against its will The creation of the Balkan League How Bulgarians pushed the Ottomans out of Thrace and Europe How they lost Macedonia, their ultimate goal, in the process The role of the Greek navy in the Balkan Wars How Greece took Thessaly and its main prize, the Port of Thessaloniki Why the Montenegrins were tied to Serbia and what their role in the war was Why Serbia and Greece agreed on an alliance Why Romania and the Ottoman Empire jumped into the conflict How it all ended with a peace treaty signed in Bucharest and Constantinople Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the Balkan Wars, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!
Download or read book The War and the Balkans written by Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton and published by London, Allen [1915]. This book was released on 1915 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkan Wars 1912 1913 written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkan Wars written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Balkan Wars by Jacob Gould Schurman
Download or read book The Balkan Wars 1912 1913 written by Richard C. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia. The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 opened an era of conflict in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, which lasted until 1918, and which established a basis for problems which tormented Europe until the end of the century. Based on archival as well as published diplomatic and military sources, this book provides the first comprehensive perspective on the diplomatic and military aspects of the Balkan Wars. It demonstrates that, because of the diplomatic problems raised and the military strategies and tactics pursued to resolve those problems, The Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 were the first phase of the greater and wider conflict of the First World War.
Download or read book War in the Balkans written by Richard C. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference follows the history of conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula from the 19th century through the present day. The Balkan Peninsula, which consists of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the former Yugoslavia, resides in the southeastern part of the European continent. Its strategic location as well as its long and bloody history of conflict have helped to define the Balkans' role in global affairs. This singular reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have made this region an international player and shaped warfare there for hundreds of years. Historian and author Richard C. Hall traces the sociopolitical history of the area, starting with the early internal conflicts as the Balkan states attempted to break away from the Ottoman Empire to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that ignited World War I to the Yugoslav Wars that erupted in the 1990s and the subsequent war crimes still being investigated today. Additional coverage focuses on how these countries continue to play an important role in global affairs and international politics.
Download or read book The Wars of Yesterday written by Katrin Boeckh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Nationalism and War in the Near East written by George Young and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ; New York : Milford. This book was released on 1915 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkan Wars written by Gould Jacob Schurman and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkan Wars 1912 13 written by Leon Trotsky and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkans in the Cold War written by Svetozar Rajak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system. This book explores the origins, unfolding and impact of the Cold War on the Balkans on the one hand, and the importance of regional realities and pressures on the other. Fifteen contributors from history, international relations, and political science address a series of complex issues rarely covered in one volume, namely the Balkans and the creation of the Cold War order; Military alliances and the Balkans; uneasy relations with the Superpowers; Balkan dilemmas in the 1970s and 1980s and the ‘significant other’ – the EEC; and identity, culture and ideology. The book’s particular contribution to the scholarship of the Cold War is that it draws on extensive multi-archival research of both regional and American, ex-Soviet and Western European archives.
Download or read book The Modern Balkans written by Richard C. Hall and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Europe by culture, politics, and economics, the Balkans have slowly been integrating into Western Europe since the nineteenth century. But this process of economic and political development, following the Western European model, has been far from smooth in the Balkans. As Hall explains, it has often been marked by violence and destruction, the result of many wars and rebellions. Though Soviet power imposed a nearly fifty-year peace in the region, the collapse of the Soviet Union renewed conflict that continued through the end of the twentieth century. Hall concentrates here on the significant political and economic events that have had the greatest impact on the role of the Balkans in Europe; in particular, he examines the development of national states in the nineteenth century, the influence of the two world wars, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. This clear and concise history of the Balkan Peninsula will appeal to readers and scholars interested in European history and the Balkans’ unique role in it.
Download or read book Peace Theories and the Balkan War written by Norman Angell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peace Theories and the Balkan War" is a classic Balkan War history text by Norman Angell that examines the Balkan wars in the years preceding World War One. The author of the book criticizes the Crimean War from a pacifist viewpoint but also supports the then-current wars against the Ottoman Turks, which he characterizes as essentially defensive.
Download or read book The Balkan Peninsula written by Frank Fox and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balkan Peninsula is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. These impressions of the Balkan Peninsula were mainly gathered during the war of the Balkan allies against Turkey and the following war among themselves. Contents include: The Vexed Balkans The Turk in the Balkans The Fall of the Turkish Power The Wars of 1912-13 A Chapter in Balkan Diplomacy The Troubles of a War Correspondent in the Balkans Jottings from my Balkan Travel Book The Picturesque Balkans The Balkan Peoples in Art and Industry The Future of the Balkans
Download or read book The Balkans 1815 1914 written by Leften Stavros Stavrianos and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: