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" Balkan wars : "
James D. Tracy.
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BL
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849151
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Tracy, James D.
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Balkan wars : : Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499-1617 /\ James D. Tracy.
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Lanham :: Rowman & Littlefield,, [2016]
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, ©2016
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vii, 448 pages :: maps ;; 24 cm
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1442213582
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: 9781442213586
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9781442213609
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-436) and index.
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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.
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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. --
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Borderlands-- Europe-- History-- 16th century.
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Balkankriege
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Borderlands.
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Krieg
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Balkan Peninsula, History, 16th century.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, History, 1463-1878.
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Croatia, History, 1527-1918.
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Turkey, History, Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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Balkan Peninsula.
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Balkan
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Balkanhalbinsel
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Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Croatia.
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Europe.
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Osmanisches Reich
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Österreich
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Turkey.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.6/03
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DR41.T73 2016
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