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Zusatztext Review from previous edition 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 One of the terrible and tragic themes of modern history is the forced removal of millions of human beings. The causes, course, and consequences of the removal of peoples from their homes form a central theme in the history of the modern world. While removing people from their homes by force did not begin suddenly in the nineteenth century, the combination of the development of a global (capitalist) economy, of modern race-thinking, of world wars, of the triumph of popular and national sovereignty, and of new technological means of physically uprooting and transporting peoples has given this phenomenon a quantitatively and qualitatively new character.Removal has been a global phenomenon, and therefore this volume treats it within the frame of world history and international comparison. Examples discussed range from the United States in the 1830s to the expulsion of pied noir settlers from Algeria in the 1960s. A number of factors reshaped the older practices of forced migration and helped to make the removals discussed in this volume distinctly 'modern'. These include the use of modern apparatuses of administration, communication, and coercion, as well as warfare based on modern technology and organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introductory Remarks 1: Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake: Introduction 2: Alf Lüdtke: Explaining Forced Migration Part II: Forced Removal and Indigenous Peoples 3: Tim Alan Garrison: On the Trail of Tears: Daniel Butrick's Record of the Removal of the Cherokees 4: Claudia B. Haake: Breaking the Bonds of People and Land 5: Donald L. Fixico: The Federal Indian Relocation Programme of the 1950s and the Urbanization of Indian Identity 6: Mark Copland: Calculating Lives: The Number and Narrative of Removals in Queensland, 1859-1972 7: Paul E. Lovejoy: The Slave Trade as Enforced Migration in the Central Sudan of West Africa Part III: Forced Removal and War 8: Donald Bloxham: The Great Unweaving: The Removal of Peoples in Europe, 1875-1949 9: Ronald Grigor Suny: Explaining Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire 10: Shane O'Rourke: Trial Run: The Deportation of the Terek Cossacks 1920 11: Detlef Brandes: National and International Planning of the 'Transfer' of Germans from Czechoslovakia and Poland 12: Gyanendra Pandey: 'Nobody's People': The Dalits of Punjab in the Forced Removal of 1947 13: Ian Talbot: The 1947 Partition of India and Migration: A Comparative Study of Punjab and Bengal 14: Benny Morris: Explaining Transfer: Zionist Thinking and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Part IV: Forced Removal in Post-Colonial Times 15: Christian Gerlach: Sustainable Violence: Mass Resettlement, Strategic Villages, and Militias in Anti-Guerrilla Warfare 16: Andrea Smith: Coerced or Free? Narrating the Reverse Migrations of Decolonization Part V: Concluding Thoughts 17: Joanna de Groot: Removing Peoples in the 'Modern' World: A Comparative Perspective ...
