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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'.
Sommario
- Prologue: The Curious Case of Clarence C. Hatry: Financier, Frandster, and Migration Expert
- Introduction
- 1: 'The Crazy Quilt of Peoples and Nationalities': Nation-States and National Minorities
- 2: The Good Doctors: The League of Nations and the Internationalization of the Minorities Problem
- 3: 'A New International Morality': European Dictatorships and the Reordering of Nationalities
- 4: Defenders of Minorities: Liberal Internationalists, Jews, and Planning for the Brave New World
- 5: Defenders of the State: Czechs, Eastern Measures, and European Exiles
- 6: 'A Clean Sweep': The Grand Alliance and Population Transfer
- 7: Accomplished Facts: Transfer and the Aftermath of the Second World War
- 8: A Paris Affair: The Post-War Limits of Population Transfer
- 9: Afterlives: Population Transfer in an Era of Human Rights
- Conclusion
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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.
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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'.
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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.
