1. Introduction William Mulligan, Andreas Rose and Dominik Geppert Part 1. The Belligerents: 2. Italy, Libya and the Balkans Francesco Caccomo 3. The Italian soldiers' experience in Libya, 1911-12 Vanda Wilcox 4. Ottoman diplomacy, the Balkan Wars, and the Great Powers Gul Tokay 5. Mass violence against civilians during the Balkan Wars Ugur Ungor Umit 6. War, civic mobilization and the shaping of the Ottoman home front during the Balkan Wars, 1912-13 Eyal Ginio 7. Civil and military relations in Serbia during 1903-14 John Paul Newman 8. The great expectations: political visions, military preparation, and national upsurge in Bulgaria at the onset of the Balkan Wars Nikolai Vukov Part II. The European Military between Real and Imagined Wars: 9. The Russian threat calculation, 1910-14 Bruce Menning 10. The French military mind and the wars before the war Adrian Wettstein 11. The perception of the 'wars before the wars' in Austria-Hungary Gunther Kronenbitter 12. Between Manchuria and the Marne: the German army and its perception of the military conflicts of 1911-14 Markus Poehlmann Part III. The Wars and Great Power Politics: 13. Austro-Hungarian foreign policy and the Balkan Wars Alma Hannig 14. German foreign policy and the Balkan Wars, 1912-14 Patrick Bormann 15. Entente diplomacy vs detente, 1911-14 T. G. Otte 16. Anglo-French relations and the wars before the war Friedrich Kiessling Part IV. The Wars in the European Public Sphere: 17. The Habsburg Empire's German speaking public sphere and the First Balkan War Tamara Scheer 18. From 'illusion' and 'Angellism' to detente - British radicals and the Balkan Wars Andreas Rose 19. Uncivilised wars in civilised Europe? The perception of the Balkan Wars 1912-13 in English, German, and Irish newspapers and journals Florian Keisinger 20. Socialism and the challenge of the Balkan Wars 1912-13 Wolfgang Kruse.
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