ISBN:
9781782383024
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
War and Genocide v.19
Series Statement:
War and Genocide Ser v.19
Parallel Title:
Print version Dark Side of Nation-States, The : Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
DDC:
304.6630940904
Keywords:
Europe ; Ethnic relations ; History ; 20th century
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Europe ; History, Military ; 20th century
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Europe ; Politics and government ; 20th century
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Genocide ; Europe ; History ; 20th century
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Nationalism ; Europe ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but is
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Preconditions of Ethnic Cleansing; Chapter 2 - Ethnic Cleansing as an Instrument of International Politics: 1912-25; Chapter 3 - Total War and Total Cleansing: 1938-44; Chapter 4 - The Big Sweep: Postwar Europe and Beyond 1944-48; Chapter 5 - Ghosts of the Past: The Former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus 1991-99; Conclusion and Historical Typology; Acknowledgments; Annotated Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
