Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

✍ Scribed by Donald Bloxham; Robert Gerwarth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home.

✦ Table of Contents

01.0_pp_i_vi_Frontmatter
02.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents
03.0_pp_viii_x_Notes_on_contributors
04.0_pp_1_10_Introduction
05.0_pp_11_39_Europe_in_the_world_systems_and_cultures_of_violence
06.0_pp_40_86_War
07.0_pp_87_139_Genocide_and_ethnic_cleansing
08.0_pp_140_175_Revolution_and_counter-revolution
09.0_pp_176_209_Terrorism_and_the_state
10.0_pp_210_248_Notes
11.0_pp_249_258_Index

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