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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ther, Philipp (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2014]
Colección:War and genocide ; v. 19.
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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.