Balkan Wars

Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499–1617

Nonfiction, History, Austria & Hungary, Eastern Europe, Medieval
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Author: James D. Tracy ISBN: 9781442213609
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: July 29, 2016
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: James D. Tracy
ISBN: 9781442213609
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: July 29, 2016
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English

This first English-language history of the western Balkans in the sixteenth century brings together rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key work on Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across this region stalled amid great-power conflicts. Ottoman conquests in Croatia were facilitated by a highly centralized structure of command. If Habsburg sovereigns needed decades to rally fractious elites behind common goals, the defenses they built proved enduring. Meanwhile, Venice guarded its Dalmatian harbors, but viewed the Ottomans more as trading partners than as enemies, thus heightening tensions with Vienna. Along the way, this comparative political and military history of the three contiguous provinces illustrates how metropolitan capitals were sometimes able to control their distant outposts, and sometimes not.

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This first English-language history of the western Balkans in the sixteenth century brings together rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key work on Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across this region stalled amid great-power conflicts. Ottoman conquests in Croatia were facilitated by a highly centralized structure of command. If Habsburg sovereigns needed decades to rally fractious elites behind common goals, the defenses they built proved enduring. Meanwhile, Venice guarded its Dalmatian harbors, but viewed the Ottomans more as trading partners than as enemies, thus heightening tensions with Vienna. Along the way, this comparative political and military history of the three contiguous provinces illustrates how metropolitan capitals were sometimes able to control their distant outposts, and sometimes not.

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