1st Edition

Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands Military Mobilizations in Southeastern Europe, 1908 to 1923

By Jovo Miladinović Copyright 2027
318 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors in the Imperial Borderlands redefines Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history. Long dismissed as a “powder keg” of violence, the region emerges here as a crucial laboratory of military innovation, governance, and state formation in the early 20th century. Spanning the Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Montenegro, Serbia, and the Kingdom of Serbs,... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1

“One of the Holiest Duties”: The Institutionalization of Military Service

Chapter 2

“The People To Be Satisfied”: Chasing the Mood of Ordinary Subjects

Chapter 3

“To Spare Our Own Blood”: Paramilitaries, Local Cleavages, and Military Intersection

Chapter 4

“The Best Days of His Life”: Barracks, the Front, Desertion, and Evasion

Chapter 5

“To Prohibit Women’s Entry into the Army”: Military, State, and Women

Chapter 6

“Whoever Served the Enemy Cannot Be Allowed to Return”: Occupation and Its Aftermath

Conclusion

 

Biography

Jovo Miladinović is a historian at the University of Konstanz specializing in global military, transimperial, and maritime history of Europe and the Mediterranean. His work examines imperial governance, mobility, borderland transformations, and processes of empire- and nation-building from the 18th to the 20th centuries.