Ethnicizing Europe : hate and violence after Versailles /

"Ethnicizing Europe focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a host of condition...

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Other Authors:	Kovács, Éva, 1964- (Editor, Contributor), Cârstocea, Raul (Editor, Contributor), Egry, Gábor, 1975- (Editor, Contributor), Aro, Pauli (Contributor), Bodó, Béla (Contributor), Haid-Lener, Elisabeth (Contributor), Kladiwa, Pavel, 1973- (Contributor), Mazur, Zachary (Contributor), Pokludová, Andrea (Contributor), Scofield, Devlin (Contributor), Trębacz, Zofia (Contributor), Vitári, Zsolt, 1975- (Contributor), Wierzejska, Jagoda (Contributor), Zahra, Tara (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 2025.
Series:	Central European studies.
Subjects:	Europe, Central > History > 20th century. Europe, Central > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century. Ethnic conflict > Europe > History > 20th century. Conflits ethniques > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.

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Summary:	"Ethnicizing Europe focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a host of conditions like self-determination, international oversight, revolutionary political ideas, and democratic processes, which eventually gave new meaning to already established conflicts, as well as igniting new conflicts in the region. This book opens with a discussion of the theoretical scholarship on ethnicity before proceeding to specific case studies investigating the different ways in which ethnicity was enacted and contested during a period of European transformation, focusing mostly on ethnically heterogeneous locales. Rather than concentrating on either political violence or ethnonationalism, this collection brings these two literatures together to show how ethnicization, the legal concepts of citizenship, and violence were intertwined in post-Versailles Europe, not only shaping the period between the wars, but also the Europe we know today. The book concludes with an afterword by Tara Zahra, which expands this perspective to the wider transatlantic region." -Back cover.
Physical Description:	[vii], 311 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.
ISBN:	9781626711204 1626711216 9781626711211 1626711208