Notions of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing on the Eve of the First World War: The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 (South-East European History)

This book examines patterns of behavior during an era of mass brutality by analyzing, in a transnational context, mechanisms of violence and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. Cover HalfTitle Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction ·1· A Longue Durée Borderland Crisis: 1804–1912 ·2· Bekir Fikri of Grevena: Micro Dynamics of Violence in the Vilayet of Manastir A Different Macedonian Question: The Kaza of Grevena The Assassination of the Metropolitan Bekir’s Insurgency ·3· An Undeclared War in the Sidelines: The Paramilitaries and the Locals ·4· An Undeclared War in the Sidelines: The Military Occupation Decent into Chaos: The Second Balkan War in Macedonia ·5· Notions of Violence and Ethnic Cleansing in Thrace and the Pomak Christianization The Short Term Republic The Pomak Christianization ·6· The Epirus Front: A Case of Counterinsurgency and the Albanian Factor Irregular War in Epirus The Northern Epirus/Southern Albania Question Conclusions Bibliography