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Uprooted : how post-WWII population transfers remade Europe / Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Loaned to Another Library D820.P72 G394 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charnysh, Volha, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population transfers--Germans--History--20th century.
- Population transfers.
- Forced migration--Germany (West)--History.
- Forced migration.
- Forced migration--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Peace.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Germany (West)--Politics and government.
- Germany (West).
- Poland--Politics and government--1945-1980.
- Poland.
- Europe--Ethnic relations.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This book explores how mass displacement affects social and economic development, showing that the resettlement of millions of Germans and Poles after WWII produced stronger states and more prosperous societies. It advances research on ethnicity, migration, and state-building and provides lessons for policymakers dealing with forced displacement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Understanding forced migration
- Europe's zero hour : population transfers in the aftermath of WWII
- Cooperation in homogeneous and heterogeneous Polish villages
- Forced migration and public goods contributions in West Germany
- State-building in the Polish Wild West
- Expellees and the state in West Germany
- Economic implications of cultural diversity in Western Poland
- Economic legacies of forced migration in West Germany.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009442008
- 1009442007
- 1009441973
- 9781009441971
- OCLC:
- 1430654694
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