The origins of the Crimean War
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The origins of the Crimean War
（Origins of modern wars / general editor, Harry Hearder）
Longman, 1994
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 305-321
Includes index
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ISBN 9780582490543
Description
The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was the biggest international conflict of the European powers in the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the World War I. When it was over, 800,000 soldiers had died in an obscure corner of the map in a war that could easily have been prevented. How did it happen? David Goldfrank shows how, though the war was fought in the distant Crimea, its origins lay in the pressing domestic concerns of the belligerents. His study moves across Europe through London, Paris, St Petersburg, Turin, Vienna and Constantinople to show how the conflict involved all the major political stresspoints 19th-century Europe: the 'Eastern Question', British and French imperial rivalry, the move for national self-determination in Italy against their Austrian occupiers, Russia's Mediterranean ambitions, and the struggle of all the imperial powers for influence over an unstable Middle East as the Ottoman Empire seemed to be collapsing.
The book offers a case study of 19th-century power-politics, which exposes not only the deep-seated and enduring concerns of the belligerents bot also the very nature of 19th-century Great Power diplomacy itself. It argues that responsibility for the Crimean War lies firmly with the individual political leaders who could have prevented it; but the author also shows how economic factors and the breakdown of the Concert of Europe after 1848 created a climate favourable to the outbreak of international conflict.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The setting: western questions - the home fronts
- western questions - the projection of power
- the Eastern question. Part 2 The sparks: counter-revolution on the march (1848-1850)
- holy places, profane litigation (May 1850-March 1852)
- the return to armed diplomacy (April-November 1852)
- nativity. Part 3 The rupture: preparations for diplomatic disaster (January-February 1853)
- mission impossible - I - Menshikov vs the Charges (March 1853)
- mission impossible - II - Menshikov vs the Great Ambassador (April-May 1853). Part 4 The twighlight zone: giant steps (May-June 1853)
- floating projects (June-July 1853)
- sour notes (July-August 1853)
- cutting loose (August-September 1953). Part 5 The passage to Arms: the outbreak of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War (September-October 1853)
- getting down to business (October-December 1853)
- calculated countdown (December 1853-April 1854). Part 6 Conclusions and consequences: the origins of the Crimean War
- the strange sequel.
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: pbk ISBN 9780582490550
Description
The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred. In this masterly study, based on massive archival research, David Goldfrank argues that the European diplomatic roots of the war stretch far beyond the `Eastern Question' itself, and shows how the domestic concerns of the participants contributed to the outbreak of hostilities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The setting: western questions - the home fronts
- western questions - the projection of power
- the Eastern question. Part 2 The sparks: counter-revolution on the march (1848-1850)
- holy places, profane litigation (May 1850-March 1852)
- the return to armed diplomacy (April-November 1852)
- nativity. Part 3 The rupture: preparations for diplomatic disaster (January-February 1853)
- mission impossible - I - Menshikov vs the Charges (March 1853)
- mission impossible - II - Menshikov vs the Great Ambassador (April-May 1853). Part 4 The twighlight zone: giant steps (May-June 1853)
- floating projects (June-July 1853)
- sour notes (July-August 1853)
- cutting loose (August-September 1953). Part 5 The passage to Arms: the outbreak of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War (September-October 1853)
- getting down to business (October-December 1853)
- calculated countdown (December 1853-April 1854). Part 6 Conclusions and consequences: the origins of the Crimean War
- the strange sequel.
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