The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe / / Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller
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Ther Philipp
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| Titolo: |
The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe / / Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.6630940904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Genocide - Europe - History - 20th century |
| Nationalism - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Europe Ethnic relations History 20th century |
| Europe Politics and government 20th century | |
| Europe History, Military 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | KreutzmüllerCharlotte |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 i |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dark side of nation states |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-303-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464676003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
War and genocide ; ; Volume 19.