The Dark Side of Nation-States : Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe Hardback
by Philipp Ther
Part of the War and Genocide series
Hardback
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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 is also an encompassing, comparative study including Western Europe, interrogating the motivations of Western statesmen and their involvement in large-scale population removals.
It also reaches beyond the European continent and considers the reverberations of colonial rule and ethnic cleansing in the former British colonies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:08/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781782383024
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:08/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781782383024
