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Ethnic cleansing

Title
Ethnic cleansing / Andrew Bell-Fialkoff.
Author
Bell, Andrew (Andrew Villen)
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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Description
346 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
"Ethnic cleansing" has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siecle. In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and showing how, in different times and places, the most varied criteria have been used to isolate and destroy previously accepted or even completely unnoticed groups. "Cleansing" has been based on race, gender, class, sexual preference, and religion and has been a constant evil in world history. The need to understand its reemergence in the wake of communism's collapse is at the center of this important book. Bell-Fialkoff also uses his analysis of this seemingly intransigent problem to offer a reasoned account of the practice of population transfer and how it could ease ethnic strife in certain situations.
Subject
  • Population transfers
  • Forced migration
  • Forced migration
  • Population transfers
  • Minderheitenfrage
  • Vertreibung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Etnische conflicten
  • Genocide
  • Internationale aspecten
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Ethnic cleansing
  • International criminal law
  • Minorities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: What Is Population Cleansing? -- 1. Cleansing: A Historical Overview -- 2. A Typology of Cleansing -- 3. Cleansing as a Metonym of Collective Identity -- 4. Areas of Conflict: Which Ones to Choose? -- 5. Bosnia -- 6. Cyprus -- 7. Karabakh -- 8. Kosovo -- 9. The Palestinian Problem -- 10. The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics -- 11. Rwanda and Burundi -- 12. Sri Lanka -- 13. Transylvania -- 14. Ulster -- 15. Solving Irreconcilable Ethnic Conflicts -- 16. The Resettlement Index -- 17. Possible Solutions.
ISBN
  • 0312107927
  • 9780312107925
  • 0312223366
  • 9780312223366
LCCN
96019400
OCLC
  • ocm34624241
  • 34624241
  • SCSB-2097714
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library