Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 025300635X ISBN 13: 9780253006356

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered each other along often changing and contested borders. Examining this geographically widespread, multicultural region at several levels—local, national, transnational, and empire—and through multiple approaches—social, cultural, political, and economic—this volume offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist in a previous era and how and why the areas eventually descended into violence. An understanding of this specific region will help readers grasp the preconditions of interethnic coexistence and the causes of ethnic violence and war in many of the world's other borderlands both past and present.

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Recensione:

"It is hard to imagine that anyone in the field of central/eastern Europe will not buy this book. It will also be interesting to anyone working on the First or Second World War, or the history of violence, genocide, Judeocide. It's a big book... that will have a big impact." --Alison Kleig Frank, author of Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia

"Cutting-edge scholarship on important issues of borderlands and violence that many people--and the educated public as a whole think about... A compendium of first-rate research and scholarship... truly impressive." --Norman M. Naimark, author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th-Century Europe

L'autore:

Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His books include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity.

Eric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and the Arts and Professor of History at City College, City University of New York. His books include A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation and Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 025300635X
• ISBN 13: 9780253006356
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Redattore: Bartov Omer, Weitz Eric D.