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The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe / / Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller



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Autore: Ther Philipp Visualizza persona
Titolo: The dark side of nation states : ethnic cleansing in modern Europe / / Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-303-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464676003321
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