The Ottoman road to war in 1914 : the Ottoman Empire and the First World War

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aksakal, Mustafa, 1973- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, United Kindgdom [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2010
Edition:1st. paperback ed
Series:Cambridge military histories
Subjects:
Mehmed > IV, > Sultán de los Turcos > 1844-1918
Guerra mundial, 1914-1918 > Turquía.
Historia militar > Turquía.
Turquía > Historia > s. XX.
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002985669708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • Pursuing sovereignty in the age of imperialism
  • The intellectual and emotional climate after the Balkan Wars
  • 1914 : war with Greece?
  • The Ottomans within the international order
  • The great war as great opportunity : the Ottoman July crisis
  • Tug of war : Penelope's game
  • Salvation through war?
  • Conclusion : the decision for war remembered

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