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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ther, Philipp, author.

Contributor:

Kreutzmüller, Charlotte, translator.

Series:

War and genocide ; Volume 19.

War and Genocide ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782383031

1782383034

OCLC:

881734696