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Making minorities history : population transfer in twentieth-century Europe / Matthew Frank.

Author/creator Frank, Matthew James, 1973- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxix, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 'The crazy-quilt of peoples and nationalities': nation states and national minorities -- The good doctors: the league of nations and the internationalization of the minorities problem -- 'A new international morality': European dictatorships and the reordering of nationalities -- Defenders of minorities: liberal internationalists, Jews, and planning for the brave new world -- Defenders of the state: Czechs, eastern measures, and European exiles -- 'A clean sweep': the grand alliance and population transfer, 1941-5 -- Accomplished facts: transfer and the aftermath of the Second World War -- A Paris affair: the post-war limits of population transfer -- Afterlives: population transfer in an era of human rights -- Conclusion.
Abstract 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'.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9780199639441
ISBN0199639442

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