Title: Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans
Subtitle: nationalism and the destruction of tradition
First published: 2002
Description: Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans looks at the phenomenon of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans over the last two hundred years. It argues that the events of the last two hundred years can be demystified, that the South East of Europe was not destined to become violent and that constructions of the Balkans as endemically violent misses a important political point and historical point.This book claims that ethnic cleansing is a problem that is linked to nationalism rather than being restricted to the Balkans. As nationalism spread from Central Europe to the Ottoman regions of Europe, national ideologies replaced the older religious and political affiliations. Muslims came to be regarded as potentially disloyal minorities in Bosnia and elsewhere. In addition, national divisions harking back to the Middle Ages divided the other ethnic groups who became increasingly mutually antagonistic eventually leading to minorities being persecuted and driven out, with many victims mistreated and murdered in a demonstrably cruel fashion. At the beginning of the twenty first century, there are very few multiethnic regions left in South Eastern Europe and large diaspora communities of ethnically cleansed peoples.Carmichael provides an account of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans as a single historical phenomenon and brings together a vast array of primary and secondary sources to produce a concise and accessible argument. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of European studies, history and comparative politics.
Subjects: Ethnic relations, History, Nationalism, Population transfers, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Ethnic relations, Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology, Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Electronic books, Anthropology, Cultural, Discrimination & Race Relations, Balkan peninsula, ethnic relations, Nationalisme, Histoire, Relations interethniques, Nationalismus, Vertreibung, Nationale Minderheit, Gewalttätigkeit, Ethnic relations--religious aspects, Nationalism--history, Nationalism--balkan peninsula--history, Ethnic relations--history, Dr38.2 .c37 2002, 305.8/09496
Places: Balkan Peninsula
LC classification: DR38.2 .C37 2002