The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War is an edited collection of articles on the various aspects of the Crimean War written by distinguished historians from various countries.
Part I focuses on diplomatic, military and regional perspectives. Part II includes contributions on social, cultural and international issues around the war. All contributions are based upon findings of the latest research. While not pretending to be an exhaustive encyclopaedia of this first modern war, the present volume captures the most important topics and the least researched areas in the historiography of the war. The book incorporates new approaches in national historiographies to the war and is intended to be the most up-to-date reference book on the subject. Chapters are devoted to each of the belligerent powers and to other peripheral states that were involved in one way or another in the war. The volume also gives more attention to the Ottoman Empire, which is generally neglected in European books on the war.
Both the general public and students of history will find the book useful, balanced and up-to-date.
1. Introduction
Candan Badem
Part 1: Diplomatic, Military and Regional Perspectives
2. Origins of the War
David Goldfrank
3. Russia’s Policy Leading to the Crimean War
Oleg Airapetov
4. Russia’s Military Strategy and Lessons of the War
Alexey A. Krivopalov
5. British Grand Strategy
Andrew Lambert
6. The Crimean War in French Public Opinion
Jean-François Figeac
7. Russian Occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia and the Plans for a "People’s War" in the Balkans
Victor Taki
8. Ottoman Strategy and the Danube Theatre of the War
Candan Badem
9. The Ottoman Navy During the Crimean War
Evren Mercan
10. Battles and Military Art in the Caucasian Theatre of Operations
Dmitry Plotnikov
11. Better Reasons Why!: Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade
Douglas J. Austin
12. Baltic Theatre of the War, 1854–56
Andrew Lambert
13. Scandinavian Neutrality in the Crimean War
Mart Kuldkepp
14. Italians in the Crimean War
Giuseppe Cossuto
15. Greece During the Crimean War
Lucien Frary
16. The White Sea and Pacific Campaigns
Andrew Lambert
17. The Ottoman Officer Corps and the Crimean War
Mesut Uyar
18. The Armies of Egypt and Tunisia in the Crimean War
Vitaliy N. Duda and Maxim V. Nechitaylov
19. Hungarian Military Influences in the Late Ottoman Empire: Richard Guyon and György Kmety, the Hungarian Heroes of the Crimean War
János Hóvári
20. Romantic Warriors of the Crimean War: Michał Czajkowski and His Cossack Cavalry Regiment
Saadet Büyük Güler
21. The Sulina Question: Origins, Evolution, Solution
Constantin Ardeleanu
Part 2: Social, Economic, Cultural Issues
22. The Churchwarden's Quarrel and the Reality of Religion
Lucien Frary
23. War Propaganda and Public Opinion in Russian Popular Culture
Kezban Acar
24. Varna and the Crimean War
Ivan Roussev
25. The Telegraph in the Crimean War
Ivan Roussev
26. Russian Medical Service During the Crimean War
Yulia Naumova
27. Florence Nightingale and the British Sanitary Commission
Mike Hinton
28. Impact of the War on Daily Life in Istanbul
Kudret Emiroğlu
29. Origins of the "Kurdish Question"?: The Revolt of Yezdanşêr (1854–55)
Metin Atmaca
30. The Toll of War on Crimea
Mara Kozelsky
31. From Crimea to Dobruja: The Impact of the Crimean War on the Crimean Tatars of the Nineteenth Century
Catalina Hunt
Biography
Candan Badem is an associate professor of History. Since 2016, he has been excluded from state universities in Turkey by a government decree.
