
Removing Peoples
Forced Removal in the Modern World
Oxford University Press
Published on 20. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-19-969872-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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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. * Pertti Ahonen, H-Soz-u-Kult *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-969872-1 (9780199698721)
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04/2009
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Persons
Editor
Professor of 20th Century History, University of York
Lecturer in History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Content
PART I: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ; PART II: FORCED REMOVAL AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ; PART III: FORCED REMOVAL AND WAR ; PART IV: FORCED REMOVAL IN POST-COLONIAL TIMES ; PART V: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS