Mustafa Aksakal

The Ottoman Road to War in 1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire's fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521880602
• ISBN-10: 0521880602
• Artikelnr.: 24705080

Autorenporträt

Mustafa Aksakal is Associate Professor of History and Modern Turkish Studies at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism
1. The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan wars
2. 1914: war with Greece?
3. The Ottomans within the international order
4. The Great War as great opportunity: the Ottoman July crisis
5. Tug of war: Penelope's game
6. Salvation through war?
Conclusion: the decision for war remembered.