Children of the Greek Civil War - Refugees and the Politics of Memory

Informationen zum Autor Loring M. Danforth is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College and the author of several books! including! most recently! The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Riki Van Boeschoten is associate professor of social anthropology and oral history at the University of Thessaly! Greece! and the author of From Armatolik to People's Rule: Investigation into the Collective Memory of Rural Greece (1750-1949). Klappentext At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948! thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe! while their adversaries placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. This book presents a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs. Zusammenfassung At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948! thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe! while their adversaries placed the rest in children's homes elsewhere in Greece. This book presents a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs.

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• Authors: Riki van Boeschoten, Loring M. Danforth, Loring M. Boeschoten Danforth, Loring M. Van Boeschoten Danforth, Loring M./ Van Boeschoten Danforth, DANFORTH LORING M BOESCHOTEN RI, Riki Van Boeschoten
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2011
• EAN: 9780226135984
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13598-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Greece, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Age groups: children, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Refugees and political asylum, C 1945 To C 1960, Refugees & Political Asylum, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General