List of Illustrations
A Note on Transliteration
Foreword by Edward J. Erickson
Foreword by Peter von Sivers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lasting Consequences of the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) - Isa Blumi and M. Hakan Yavuz
Part I - The Origins of the Balkan Wars
1. Warfare and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars as the Catalyst of Homogenization - M. Hakan Yavuz
2. Bulgaria and the Origins of the Balkan Wars 1912–1913 - Richard C. Hall
3. Young Turk Policy of Macedonia: Cause of the Balkan Wars? - Mehmet Hacisalihoglu
4. Rebels with a Cause: Armenian Macedonian Relations, 1890–1913 - Garabet Moumdjian
5. The Balkan War of 1912: An Assessment of Responsibilities - Feroze Yasemee
6. Epidemic Diseases seen in the Traceian Front of the Ottoman Empire During the Balkans - Oya M. Daglar
Part II - External Influences and Consequences
7. Ottoman Diplomacy and the Origins of the Balkan Wars - Gul Tokay
8. Austria-Hungary’s struggle for status quo and the Serb and Montenegrin Propaganda in Sandžak Novi Pazar (1879–1908) - Tamara Scheer
9. The Balkan Wars in the Perspective of the European Powers: The Italian Case - Francesco Caccamo
10. Between Cross and Crescent: British Diplomacy and Press OpinionToward the Ottoman Empire in Resolving the Balkan Wars, 1912–1913 - Pamela Dorn Sezgin
Part III - Transforming Ottoman Society
11. The Balkan Wars and the Turkish Women’s Movement - Serpil Atamaz
12. And the Awakening Came as a Result of the Balkan War: The Changing Conceptualization of the Body in Late Ottoman Society - Melis Hafez
13. Making Sense of the Defeat in the Balkan Wars: Voices from the Arab Provinces - Eyal Ginio
Part IV - Ethno-Religious Cleansing and Great Power Epistemologies
14. Paramilitaries in the Balkan Wars: The Case of Macedonian Andrianople - Sahara Tetsuya
15. Nationalism of Coercion: The Case of Pomak Christianization (Pokrasvane) in Bulgaria, 1912–1913 - Fatme M. Myuhtar-May
16. Bulgaria’s Policy towards Muslims during the Balkan Wars - Neriman Hacisalihoglu
17. Perceiving the Balkan Wars: Western and Ottoman commentaries on the 1914 Carnegie Endowment Balkan Wars Inquiry - Patrick Adaimak
18. Savagery and the “Modern” State: Competency and Civilization in the Late Ottoman and Early North American Empires - Jon Schmitt
Part V - Balkan States
19. Shifting Possibilities Before and After 1912: Empire to Nation-State - Isa Blumi
20. Ottoman Disintegration in the Balkans and its Repercussions - Sevtap Demirci
21. Aggressiveness of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Serbs in the Public Discourse during the Balkan Wars - Amir Duranovic
Part VI - Republic of Turkey and Republican Introspection
22. Balkan Ward and Population Movement - Nedim Ipek
23. The Refugee Elite of the Early Republic of Turkey - Erik-Jan Zurcher
24. The Loss of the Lost: Selective Memory and The Construction of the Modern Turkish National Identity - Mehmet Arisan
25. The Political and Military Consequences of the Balkan Wars on the Republican Military - Dogan Akyaz
26. The Impact of the Balkan Wars on the Emergence of Modern Turkey - Preston Hughes
27. The Impacts of the Balkan Wars on the Turkish Intellectuals - Funda Selcuk Sirin
28. What Did the Albanians Do?: Post War Disputes on “Albanian Attitudes” - Cagdas Sümer
29. More History than they Can Consume?: Perception of the Balkan Wars in the Turkish Republican Textbook (1932–2007) - Nazan Cicek
Chronology
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index