Making Minorities History - Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe

Twentieth-century Europe saw many international schemes for the forced resettlement of national minorities, and Making Minorities History draws a comprehensive and wide-ranging historical narrative of this population transfer, examining the thinking that informed the solution for the so-called 'minorities problem'.

About the author

Matthew Frank is Associate Professor in International History at the University of Leeds. He is a graduate of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London and St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context (2008) and has published widely on the diplomacy of displacement in twentieth-century Europe. He is currently one of the editors of the journal Contemporary European History.

Summary

Twentieth-century Europe saw many international schemes for the forced resettlement of national minorities, and Making Minorities History draws a comprehensive and wide-ranging historical narrative of this population transfer, examining the thinking that informed the solution for the so-called 'minorities problem'.

Additional text

a valuable and enriching contribution to the growing literature on population transfer's manifold histories, and it should be consulted by all those interested in the study of "nations and nationalism", broadly understood. Once again, I benefited from it a great deal.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Frank, Matthew (Associate Professor in Internation Frank
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9780199639441
• ISBN: 978-0-19-963944-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies