The Ottoman Road to War in 1914 The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed,...
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Cambridge University Press
11.12.2008
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge Military Histories |
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| ISBN: | 0521175259, 9780521880602, 9780521175258, 0521880602 |
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- Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction: pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism -- 1 The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan Wars -- The Ottoman Empire and the international order -- "National struggle" and the mobilization of society -- The journal Büyük Duygu (The Great Yearning) -- 2 1914: war with Greece? -- 3 The Ottoman Empire within the international order -- The role of Germany -- The Russian reform proposal for eastern Anatolia -- The Ottomans in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars -- The German military mission -- Russian challenge and Ottoman response -- 4 The Great War as great opportunity: the Ottoman July Crisis -- German-Ottoman alliance negotiations during the July Crisis -- The signing of the German-Ottoman alliance, August 2, 1914 -- Alliance and mobilization -- The arrival of the SMS Goeben and the SMS Breslau -- 5 Tug of war: Penelope's game -- The endangered alliance -- The first German-Ottoman crisis over Ottoman intervention, August 19-22 -- Between neutrality and alliance -- The German "no" to Ottoman requests for military aid, September 10, 1914 -- 6 Salvation through war? -- The second German-Ottoman crisis over Ottoman intervention, September 14-22 -- Alliance or neutrality? -- The naval attack on Russia, October 27-31, 1914 -- Intervention and its impact on German-Ottoman relations -- Conclusion: the decision for war remembered -- Bibliography -- I. Unpublished Documents -- Ottoman -- German -- II. Published Documents and Official Histories -- III. Contemporary Publications and Memoirs -- IV. Secondary Sources -- Index