European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans

Dimitris Stamatopoulos is Professor of Balkan and Late Ottoman History at the University of Macedonia, Greece. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, USA and at the University of Freiburg, Germany as well as visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences socialies, France. He gained his PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

• List of Illustrations viList of Contributors viii1 War and Revolution: A Balkan Perspective – An IntroductionDimitris Stamatopoulos 2 Emulating Petrine Russia: Thick Mechanicism and the Foundations of Government in Istanbul after the Rebellion of 1730 B. Harun Küçük 3 New Horizons of Political Possibility: Greek Political Imagination after the Russo-Ottoman War of 1768–1774 Vasilis Molos 4 Military Reforms as a Diplomatic Bargaining Chip: French-Ottoman Relations at the End of the Eighteenth Century Antoaneta Atanasova 5 Echoes of Tumultuous Wars: Prosperity and Poverty of the Balkan Entrepreneurial Strata (1800s–1880s) Evguenia Davidova 6 The Final Phase of the Greek Revolution: Delimitation, Determination and Demarcation of the First Greek Borders in Ottoman Sources Dilek Özkan7 Petko Voivoda: A Re-evaluation of Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Military History Assia Nakova 8 Uprisings, Revolutions and Wars: Visual Representations in the Bulgarian Illustrated Press at the End of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Dobrinka Parusheva 9 Under a Gun: Eugen Kumicic on the Austria-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Klara Volaric10 War, Intellectuals and the Balkan States: French Intellectuals’ Perception of Serbia and Serbs in the Great War Aleksandra Kolakovic11 The New Ottoman Conception of War, State and Society in the Prelude to the First World War Banu Turnaoglu12 War, Revolution and Diplomacy: The October Revolution of 1917 and the Turkish Anatolian Resistance Movement, 1919–1922 Nikos Christofis Index