War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications (Utah Series in Middle East Studies) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1607812401 ISBN 13: 9781607812401

Publisher: University of Utah Press, 2013

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Contributors:A. K. Yasamee, University of Manchester, Great Briatin
Amir Duranović, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Çağdaş Sümer, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Oya Dağlar MACAR, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey
Dogan Akyaz, Independent Historian, Turkey
Edward Erickson, Marine Corp University, USA
Eric Jan Zürcher
Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Funda Selçuk ŞİRİN, Kocaeli Universitesi, Turkey
Garabet K. Moumdjian, University of California-Los Angeles, USA
Gul Tokay, (Independent Historian, Turkey
Isa Blumi, Georgia State University (USA) and Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University (Germany)
Jonathan Schmitt, Georgia State University
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah, USA
Mehmet Arısan, Istanbul Technical University
Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu, Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
Neriman Hacısalihoğlu, Istanbul University, Turkey
Melis Hafez, University of California, Los Angeles
Nazan Cicek, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakultesi, Turkey
Nedim Ipek, Ondokuzmayis Üniversity, Turkey
Pamela J. Dorn Sezgin, Gainesville State College, USA
Patrick J. Adamiak, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, USA
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah, USA
Serpil Atamaz, TOBB University, Turkey
Sevtap Demirci, Bogazici University, Turkey
Tamara Scheer Andrássy University Budapest
Tetsuya Sahara, Meiji University, Japan

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From the Author:

Garabet Moumdjian's chapter, for example, discusses the disseminationof ideas, strategies, and norms among different nationalist movements.As he aptly argues, the Balkan nationalists' struggle and theirtactics were quite possibly inspired by a group of Armenian inhabitantsin the Macedonia region. As iterated by Moumdjian, it was an Armenianrevolutionary organization that may have motivated irredentistBalkan nationalist networks in the crucial period from 1895 to 1913. AsMoumdjian suggests, the Balkans, especially Macedonia, became thepolitical laboratory for testing different strategies, reform programs, andideas. It was a place in which diverse nationalist groups socialized witheach other and collaborated against the Ottoman state. It is crucial tonote that, while Balkan revolutionary committees were emulating theArmenian one, the Young Turks charged with assuring "union" and"progress" were also being socialized within this framework. Moumdjianthus offers a detailed study of the political culture of revolutionary organizationsin general and their shifting strategies to expand political spacevis-à-vis the Ottoman state in a Balkan context. That is to say that theongoing cross-fertilization of ideas, networks, and strategies played animportant role in the consolidation of what would later be homogenizednation-states.

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"Professors Yavuz and Blumi have edited an excellent and much needed study on the interdisciplinary aspects of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913). By avoiding nationalist narratives that came to dominate the recent scholarship, the chapters rigorously develop the social, economic, cultural, and diplomatic connections between local, regional, and European dimensions of this catastrophic event that resulted in the annihilation of the Ottoman Muslim civilization in the Balkans. This book argues for a new theoretical approach to studying the complex connections between warfare, nationalism and homogenization. This book is more so a study of the patterns of the nation-building than a military history. It is a must read for the Balkan and Ottoman specialists and students of nationalism."
--Ilber Ortayli, Galatasaray University, Istanbul and the author of Discovering the Ottomans 

"A very impressive collection. Not only will this be the most comprehensive volume on the Balkan Wars, but the interdisciplinary approach which it incorporates casts new light on the origins of contemporary conflicts in the Balkans."
--Uli Schamiloglu, University of Wisconsin

"War and Nationalism is the second volume in this series, which covers the causes, course and consequences of the end of the Ottoman Turkish empire. It had famously been multi-ethnic and multi-religious, and its destruction was accompanied by mass deportations, what we have learned to call ethnic cleansing, and vicious murder. This volume's originality lies in its demonstration that the first instance of this came with Greek independence, and that the model was then adapted to the rest of the Ottoman Balkans and then to Anatolia itself. The articles are of high quality, bringing various elements of history--social, intellectual, diplomatic and economic--together to present a coherent narrative of these tragedies."
--Norman Stone, Bilkent University and author of The Eastern Front 1914-1917

"War and Nationalism offers a new perspective on understanding the process of nation-building in the Balkans at the end of the nineteenth century. It indicates very clearly that war-making became an effective agent of homogenization through ethnic cleansing and mass killing. A number of papers argue that the Ottoman military defeat and the deportation of so many Muslims from southeastern Europe, and the destruction of long-established Muslim communities, radicalized the Young Turks and helped to create a revanchist (rather than nationalist) political atmosphere. Ottoman public opinion concluded that the very existence of the Ottoman state was in the balance, and that they needed a major ally. This is a large part of the explanation for the Ottomans' decision to enter the First World War. This book offers a clear and original narrative of the social and political implications of the Balkan Wars."
--Peter Sluglett, President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2012-13, Visiting Research Professor, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607812401
• ISBN 13: 9781607812401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 884
• Editor: Yavuz M. Hakan, Blumi Isa