The Ottoman Road to War in 1914 | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780521175258 | The Ottoman Road to War in 1914 | Mustafa Aksakal | Taschenbuch | 2010

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Beschreibung

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, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams? Based on previously untapped Ottoman and European sources, Mustafa Aksakal's dramatic study challenges this consensus. It demonstrates that responsibility went far beyond Enver, that the road to war was paved by the demands of a politically interested public, and that the Ottoman leadership sought the German alliance as the only way out of a web of international threats and domestic insecurities, opting for an escape whose catastrophic consequences for the empire and seismic impact on the Middle East are felt even today.

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521175258
ISBN-10:	0521175259
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Aksakal, Mustafa
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Mustafa Aksakal
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.11.2010
Gewicht:	0,387 kg