The Balkan Wars from Contemporary Perception to Historic Memory

1. The Balkan Wars from Perception to Remembrance
Katrin Boeckh, Sabine Rutar

Part I. War in the Balkans: Towards the End of Empire

2. Ethnonationalism, Irredentism, and Empire
Fikret Adanır

3. Violence, Forced Migration, and Population Policies During and After the Balkan Wars (1912–14)
Edvin Pezo

4. Gjergj Fishta, the “Albanian Homer,” and Edith Durham, the “Albanian Mountain Queen”: Observers of Albania’s Road to Statehood
Daut Dauti

5. The Rebirth of Pan-Slavism in the Russian Empire, 1912–13
Katrin Boeckh

Part II. European Eyes on the Balkans: Reassuring the Self

6. Marianne Staring at the Balkans on Fire: French Views and Perceptions of the 1912–13 Conflicts
Nicolas Pitsos

7. The Irish Question and the Balkan Crisis
Florian Keisinger

8. Political Narratives in Croatia in the Face of War in the Balkans
Stjepan Matković

9. Deviationist Perceptions of the Balkan Wars: Leon Trotsky and Otto Neurath
Günther Sandner

Part III. Memories of Victory and Defeat: Constructing the Nation

10. Bulgarian Historiography on the Balkan Wars 1912–13
Svetlozar Eldarov, Bisser Petrov

11. Religious Wars? Southern Slavs’ Orthodox Memory of the Balkan and World Wars
Stefan Rohdewald

12. The Balkan Wars in Serbian History Textbooks (1920–2013)
Dubravka Stojanović

13. From Bucharest 1913 to Bucharest 2008: The Image of the Balkan Wars in Macedonian Historiography and Public Discourse
Petar Todorov

14. The Balkan Wars in Western Historiography, 1912–2012
Eugene Michail

Keywords: History, History of Modern Europe, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Memory Studies, History of Military, History of World War II and the Holocaust