The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914

by John D. Treadway

Overview

Treadway's work is the first comprehensive study of Montenegro's relations with her Great-Power neighbors on the eve of WWI.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557531469
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1983
Series:	Central European Studies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Treadway is professor of History and International Studies, Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professorship in History International Studies Concentration Advisor, World Politics and Diplomacy at University of Richmond.

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names
ONE The Setting
TWO The Annexation. Crisis, I: 1908
THREE The Annexation Crisis, II: 1909
FOUR From Kolasin to Jubilee: 1909-1910
FIVE The Malissori Uprisings: 1910-1911
SIX The Road to War: 1911-1912
SEVEN The Outbreak of the First Balkan War: 1912-1913
EIGHT The Scutari Crisis: 1913
NINE From Scutari to Sarajevo: 1913-1914
TEN Into Armageddon-The Outbreak of War: 1914
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Focusing upon the relations between Vienna and Cetinje in the years of the Annexation Crises, the eruption of the Albanian problem, the Balkan Wars, and the catastrophic summer of 1914, Mr. Treadway illuminates some of the inner mechanisms of the struggle between powers great and small to fill the vacuum created by the decline of Ottoman power in Europe. He has made sound use of Austrian and Yugoslav archives as well as of an impressive array of published documents and secondary sources. His analysis of the motivations behind Austro-Hungarian and Montenegrin acts is judicious and convincing. He has made a significant contribution in historiography in dispelling two myths: (1) that Montenegro was the servile handmaiden of Serbia and Russia, and (2) that Germany was constantly trying to goad Austria-Hungary into war. Mr. Treadway shatters these untenable views, and his book is a solid contribution to our knowledge of European diplomacy in the last years before the Great War.”

From the Publisher

Focusing upon the relations between Vienna and Cetinje in the years of the Annexation Crises, the eruption of the Albanian problem, the
Balkan Wars, and the catastrophic summer of 1914, Mr. Treadway illuminates some of the inner mechanisms of the struggle between powers great and small to fill the vacuum created by the decline of Ottoman power in Europe. He has made sound use of Austrian and Yugoslav archives as well as of an impressive array of published documents and secondary sources. His analysis of the motivations behind Austro-Hungarian and Montenegrin acts is judicious and convincing. He has made a significant contribution in historiography in dispelling two myths:
(1) that Montenegro was the servile handmaiden of Serbia and Russia, and (2)
that Germany was constantly trying to goad Austria-Hungary into war. Mr.
Treadway shatters these untenable views, and his book is a solid contribution to our knowledge of European diplomacy in the last years before the Great War.”

Woodford McClellan