Philipp Ther

The Dark Side of Nation-States

Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in German as: Dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten: Ethnische Seauberungen im modernen Europa by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, A2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781785331954
• ISBN-10: 1785331957
• Artikelnr.: 44542273

Autorenporträt

Philipp Ther holds a Chair of Central European History at the University of Vienna. Previously he was a professor of comparative European history at the EUI in Florence. He has published and edited several books on ethnic cleansing, including Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe 1944-1948 (co-edited with A. Siljak; Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He also co-edited Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe, (Berghahn, 2007). His most recent book Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa, (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2014) [The New Order on the Old Continent. A History of Neoliberal Europe], was awarded with the non-fiction bookprize of the Leipzig bookfare and has been contracted by Princeton University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: SETTING THE GROUND
Chapter 1. Preconditions of Ethnic Cleansing
PART II: PHASES AND AGENTS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING
Chapter 2. Ethnic Cleansing as an Instrument of International Politics
(1912-25)
Chapter 3. Total War and Total Cleansings (1938-44)
Chapter 4. A Clean New Order in Europe (1944-50)
PART III: GHOSTS OF THE PAST
Chapter 5. The former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus (1991-99)
Conclusion and Historical Typology
Acknowledgments
Annotated Bibliography