Europe on the move : refugees in the era of the Great War / edited by Peter Gatrell and Liubov Zhvanko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gatrell, Peter, editor.

Zhvanko, Liubov, 1972- editor.

Series:

Cultural history of modern war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Refugees--Europe.

World War, 1914-1918.

Refugees.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Mass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the war, a senior Red Cross official wrote 'there were refugees everywhere. It was as if the entire world had to move or was waiting to move'. Europe on the move: refugees in the era of the Great War, 1912-23 is the first attempt to understand their experiences as a whole and to establish the political, social and cultural significance and ramifications of the wartime refugee crisis. Drawing on original research by leading specialists from more than a dozen countries, it will become the definitive work on the subject and will appeal to anyone who wishes to understand how governments and public opinion responded to refugees a century ago.

Contents:

Population displacement in East Prussia during the First World War / Ruth Leiserowitz

'A mass which you could form into whatever you wanted': refugees and state building in Lithuania and Courland, 1914-21 / Klaus Richter

Refugees from Polish territories in Russia during the First World War / Mariusz Korzeniowski

'Human waves': refugees in Russia, 1914-18 / Irina Belova

Ukrainian assistance to refugees during the First World War / Liubov Zhvanko and Oleksiy Nestulya

'Cities of barracks': Refugees in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire during the First World War / Martina Hermann

Between refugees and the state: Hungarian Jewry and the wartime Jewish refugee crisis in Austria-Hungary / Rebekah Klein-Pejsová

Beyond the borders: displaced persons in the Italian linguistic space during the First World War / Marco Mondini and Francesco Frizzera

Belgian refugees during the First World War (France, Britain, Netherlands) / Michaël Amara

Citizenship on the move: refugee communities and the state in France, 1914-18 / Alex Dowdall

Golgotha: the retreat of the Serbian army and civilians in 1915-16 / Danilo Sarenac

The refugee question in Bulgaria before, during and after the First World War / Nikolai Vukov

From imperial dreams to the refugee problem: population movements during Greece's 'decade of war', 1912-22 / Emilia Salvanou

Becoming and unbecoming refugees: the long ordeal of Balkan Muslims, 1912-34 / Ugur Ümit Ü ngör.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784994419

1784994413

OCLC:

993042687