The Dark Side of Nation-States : : Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe / / Philipp Ther.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ther, Philipp,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 PRECONDITIONS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING --; CHAPTER 2 ETHNIC CLEANSING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 1912–25 --; CHAPTER 3 TOTAL WAR AND TOTAL CLEANSING 1938–44 --; CHAPTER 4 THE BIG SWEEP: POSTWAR EUROPE AND BEYOND 1944–48 --; CHAPTER 5 GHOSTS OF THE PAST: THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND THE CAUCASUS 1991–99 --; CONCLUSION AND HISTORICAL TYPOLOGY --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782383031; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782383031?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Philipp Ther.

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.