03125nam 2200661 450 991046467600332120200520144314.01-78238-303-4(CKB)3710000000128728(EBL)1375291(SSID)ssj0001224183(PQKBManifestationID)12453436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224183(PQKBWorkID)11261709(PQKB)10911303(MiAaPQ)EBC1375291(PPN)234485396(Au-PeEL)EBL1375291(CaPaEBR)ebr10882942(CaONFJC)MIL618686(OCoLC)881734696(EXLCZ)99371000000012872820140626h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dark side of nation states ethnic cleansing in modern Europe /Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte KreutzmüllerNew York ;Oxford, England :Berghahn,2014.©20141 online resource (287 p.)War and Genocide ;Volume 19Description based upon print version of record.1-306-87435-1 1-78238-302-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 iWar and genocide ;Volume 19.GenocideEuropeHistory20th centuryNationalismEuropeHistory20th centuryEuropeEthnic relationsHistory20th centuryEuropePolitics and government20th centuryEuropeHistory, Military20th centuryElectronic books.GenocideHistoryNationalismHistory304.6630940904Ther Philipp320050Kreutzmüller CharlotteMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464676003321The dark side of nation states1938174UNINA