The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe /
Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in gen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2014]
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Colección: | War and genocide ;
v. 19. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Setting the ground
- 1. Preconditions of ethnic cleansing
- The ideology of modern nationalism
- The nation-state in theory and practice
- "Minority problems"
- European modernity
- Christian intolerance
- Part II. Phases and agents of ethnic cleansing
- 2. Ethnic cleansing as an instrument of international politics (1912-25)
- The Balkan Wars and their consequences
- Deportations in World War I
- Postwar migrations
- Triage in Alsace
- The protection and reduction of minorities in the Paris Peace Treaties
- The Treaty of Lausanne
- 3. Total war and total cleansings (1938-44)
- From the Munich Agreement to World War I
- Heim ins Reich
- Under Nazi occupation
- Soviet ethnic cleansing
- Wars within the war : the Ukrainian-Polish and the Serbo-Croatian Conflict
- More cases in Germany's sphere of influence
- Ethnic cleansing of Jews
- 4. A clean new order in Europe (1944-50)
- Allies plans
- Poland and Czechoslovakia
- More cases in the Soviet sphere of influence
- At the former lines of the Cold War
- On the British track : India and Palestine
- Part III. Ghosts of the past
- 5. The former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus (1991-99)
- The breakup of Yugoslavia
- Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Kosovo
- Conflicts in the Caucasus compared
- Conclusion and historical typology
- Annotated bibliography
- Comprehensive histories of ethnic cleansing
- Literature on the resettlement of ethnically cleansed regions
- Literature on remembrance and collective memory
- Literature on individual countries.