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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Tracy, James D. (1938-....)
Titre(s) : Balkan wars [Texte imprimé] : Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499-1617 / James D. Tracy
Publication : Lanham (Md.) : Rowman & Littlefield, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-448 p.) : maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-436) and index
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.
Sujet(s) : Frontières -- Balkans -- 1500-1800
Histoire militaire -- Balkans -- 1500-1800
Relations militaires -- Autriche -- Empire ottoman -- 1500-1800
Histoire militaire -- Empire ottoman -- 1453-1683
Balkans -- 1354-1913 (Occupation ottomane)
Indice(s) Dewey :
949.603 1 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Balkans - 1362-1529
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442213586. - ISBN 1442213582 (rel.). - ISBN 9781442213609 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469641172
Notice n° :
FRBNF46964117
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue: Ottoman expansion in the Balkans, 1453-1499 ; Hungary and Venice defeated,
1499-1526 ; The Ottoman advantage: advances in Slavonia, Croatia, and Dalmatia, 1527-1541
; Diplomacy and Kleinkrieg, 1542-1556 ; War by consultation vs. war by command, 1556-1576
; War in a time of peace, 1576-1593 ; Two wars and three borders, 1593-1618.
