Sarajevo 1914 (eBook, PDF)

Sparking the First World War
Redaktion: Cornwall, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to happen or the murder's ripples which quickly spread out across the Balkans, Austria-Hungary and Europe as a whole. In this study, Mark Cornwall has gathered an impressive cast of contributors to explore the causes of the Sarajevo assassination and its consequences for the Balkans in the context of the First World War.

The volume assesses from a variety of regional perspectives how the 'South Slav Question' destabilized the empire's southern provinces, provoking violent discontent in Croatia and Bosnia, and exacerbating the empire's relations with Serbia, regarded by Austria-Hungary as a dangerous state. It then explores the ripples of the Sarajevo event, from its evolution into a European crisis to the creation of a new independent state of Yugoslavia.

Bringing together fresh perspectives by historians from Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, as well as leading British historians of Austria-Hungary, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Sarajevo violence and how it shaped modern Balkan history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350093195
• Artikelnr.: 59854114

Autorenporträt

Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a leading authority on the late Habsburg monarchy and the history of 20th-century Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. His recent publications include Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War (co-edited along with John Paul Newman; 2016) and The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction: The Southern Slav Question
Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton
UK) Part I - Tinder and Spark 1. Franz Ferdinand: Power and Image
Alma Hannig (University of Bonn
Germany) 2. Great Expectations: The Habsburgh Heir-Apparent and the Southern Slavs
Andrej Rahten (Slovene Academy of Sciences
Slovenia) 3. Mlada Bosna: The Educational and Cultural Context
Robin Okey (University of Warwick
UK) 4. Bosnian
Croatian
Serbian
or Serbo-Croatian?: Frictions over the Language Question in the Habsburg Army
Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna
Austria) 5. The Mentality of the Croatian Aristocracy
Iskra Iveljic (University of Zagreb
Croatia) Part II - International Blaze 6. Why Did Nobody Control Apis?: Serbian Military Intelligence and the Sarajevo Assassinations
Danilo Sarenac (University of Belgrade
Serbia) 7. Why Fight a Third Balkan War?: The Habsburg Mindset in 1914
Lothar Höbelt (University of Vienna
Austria) 8. 'Six Powers Appalled by War': The July Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management
Thomas Otte (University of East Anglia
UK) 9. The British Elite and the Sarajevo Assassinations
Roy Bridge (University of Leeds
UK) Part III - Regional Blaze 10. The Outbreak of War in Habsburg Trieste
Borut Klabjan (University of Koper
Slovenia) 11. Defining Traitors and Loyalists in Habsburg Croatia
Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton
UK) 12. The Inner Enemy: The Habsburg State and its Serb Citizens in Herzegovina 1913-1918
Heiner Grunert (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Germany) 13. The Sarajevo Assassinations in Czech Memory after the Great War
Dagmar Hajková (Czech Academic of Sciences
Czech Republic) 14. The Combustible Impact of Sarajevo
Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia
UK) Index