The dark side of nation-states
Subtitle: ethnic cleansing in modern Europe
By: Philipp Ther ; translated from German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller
Contributors: Hughes-Kreutzmuller, Charlotte, translator
Series: War and Genocide -- volume 19
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781782383024; 9781782383031
Subjects: Genocide; History; Nationalism; Ethnic relations; Politics and government; Military History
Work titles: Dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Preconditions of ethnic cleansing; title: The ideology of modern nationalism; title: The nation-state in theory and practice; title: "Minority problems"; title: European modernity; title: Christian intolerance; title: Part II. Phases and agents of ethnic cleansing; title: 2. Ethnic cleansing as an instrument of international politics (1912-25); title: The Balkan Wars and their consequences; title: Deportations in World War I; title: Postwar migrations; title: Triage in Alsace; title: The protection and reduction of minorities in the Paris Peace Treaties; title: The Treaty of Lausanne; title: 3. Total war and total cleansings (1938-44); title: From the Munich Agreement to World War I; title: Heim ins Reich; title: Under Nazi occupation; title: Soviet ethnic cleansing; title: Wars within the war : the Ukrainian-Polish and the Serbo-Croatian Conflict; title: More cases in Germany's sphere of influence; title: Ethnic cleansing of Jews; title: 4. A clean new order in Europe (1944-50); title: Allies plans; title: Poland and Czechoslovakia; title: More cases in the Soviet sphere of influence; title: At the former lines of the Cold War; title: On the British track : India and Palestine; title: Part III. Ghosts of the past; title: 5. The former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus (1991-99); title: The breakup of Yugoslavia; title: Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina; title: Kosovo; title: Conflicts in the Caucasus compared; title: Conclusion and historical typology; title: Annotated bibliography; title: Comprehensive histories of ethnic cleansing; title: Literature on the resettlement of ethnically cleansed regions; title: Literature on remembrance and collective memory; title: Literature on individual countries.