Removing Peoples - Forced Removal in the Modern World

Zusatztext Important and valuable...a timely and important book that will be relevant to many different fields of scholarship. It is to be hoped that this useful volume will help to fuel further research and thereby push the relevant historiography in new, innovative directions. Klappentext The forced removal of human beings from their homes for political! economic! 'racial'! religious! or cultural reasons is a tragic hallmark of the modern age. The development of a global economy! modern race-thinking! world wars! popular and national sovereignty! and new technological means have given this phenomenon a new character. Zusammenfassung The forced removal of human beings from their homes for political, economic, 'racial', religious, or cultural reasons is a tragic hallmark of the modern age. The development of a global economy, modern race-thinking, world wars, popular and national sovereignty, and new technological means have given this phenomenon a new character.

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• Authors: Richard (EDT)/ Haake Bessel
• Assisted by: Richard Bessel (Editor), Richard (Professor of 20th Century History Bessel (Editor), Claudia B. Haake (Editor), Claudia B. (Lecturer in History Haake (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780199561957
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956195-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London; Studies of the German Historic; Studies of the German Historic
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs