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Balkan Wars

Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499 - 1617
  • ISBN-13: 9781442213586
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By James D. Tracy
  • Price: AUD $222.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2016
  • Format: Hardback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 456 pages Weight: 840g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Until about 1580, Bosnia was a platform for Ottoman expansion, and Croatia steadily lost territory, while Venice focused on protecting the Dalmatian harbors vital for its trade with the Ottoman east. But as Habsburg-Austrian elites coalesced behind military reforms, they stabilized Croatia's frontier, while Bosnia shifted its attention to trade, and Habsburg raiders crossing Dalmatia heightened tensions with Venice. The period ended with a long inconclusive war between Habsburgs and Ottomans, and a brief inconclusive war between Austria and Venice. Based on rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key studies, this book is the first English-language history of the early modern Western Balkans. More broadly, it brings out how the Ottomans and their European rivals conducted their wars in fundamentally different ways. A sultan's commands were not negotiable, and Ottoman generals were held to a time-tested strategy for conquest. Habsburg sovereigns had to bargain with their elites, and it took elaborate processes of consultation to rally provincial estates behind common goals. In the end, government-by-consensus was able to withstand government-by-command.
Maps Introduction Prologue: Ottoman Expansion in the Balkans 1 Hungary and Venice Defeated 2 The Ottoman Advantage: Advances in Slavonia, Croatia, and Dalmatia 3 Diplomacy and Kleinkrieg 4 War by Consultation vs. War by Command 5 War in a Time of Peace 6 Two Wars and Three Borders Conclusion Glossary Bibliography
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