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The Balkans

Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878

By: Mark Biondich

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The Balkans

Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878

By: Mark Biondich

This study examines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history. It reminds us that political violence and ethnic cleansing are hardly unique to this region.

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The Balkans

Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878

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The Balkans

Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878

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The Balkans has long been a place of encounter among different peoples, religions, and civilizations, resulting in a rich cultural tapestry and mosaic of nationalities. But it has also been burdened by a traumatic post-colonial experience. The transition from traditional multinational empires to modern nation-states has been accompanied by large-scale political violence that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the permanent displacement of millions more. Mark Biondich examines the origins of these conflicts, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, shaped by much the same forces and intellectual impulses. It reminds us that political violence and ethnic cleansing have scarcely been unique to the Balkans. As Biondich shows, the political violence that has bedevilled the region since the late nineteenth century stemmed from modernity and the ideology of integral nationalism, employed by states that were dominated by democratizing or authoritarian nationalizing elites committed to national homogeneity. Throughout this period, the Balkan proponents of democratic governance, civil society, and multiculturalism were progressively marginalized. The history of revolution, war, political violence, and ethnic cleansing in the modern Balkans is above all the story of this tragic marginalization.

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0191559512

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Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

By: Mark Biondich

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Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

By: Mark Biondich

This is a work for political scientists and other specialists in the area."--BOOK JACKET.

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0802082947

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Annihilation

Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953

By: Mark Levene

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Annihilation

Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953

By: Mark Levene

From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume II: Annihilation covers the period from 1939 to 1953, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and its lasting impact, and the latter part of the Stalinist regime. Levene demonstrates that while the attempted Nazi mass murder of the entirety of European Jewry represents the most thoroughgoing and extreme consequence of efforts aimed at political and social reformulation of the Rimlands' arena in particular, the accumulation and concentration of genocidal violence against many 'minority' groups would suggest that anti-Semitism or racism alone is insufficient to provide a comprehensive explanation for genocide.

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Oxford University Press

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019250956X

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9780192509567

Devastation

Volume I: The European Rimlands 1912-1938

By: Mark Levene

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Devastation

Volume I: The European Rimlands 1912-1938

By: Mark Levene

From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.

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0192509411

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A History of Humanitarian Intervention

By: Mark Swatek-Evenstein

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A History of Humanitarian Intervention

By: Mark Swatek-Evenstein

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

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Cambridge University Press

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110706192X

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Smashing the Liquor Machine

A Global History of Prohibition

By: Mark Lawrence Schrad

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Smashing the Liquor Machine

A Global History of Prohibition

By: Mark Lawrence Schrad

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event.Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global wave of prohibition laws that occurred around the same time. Schrad's counterintuitiveglobal history of prohibition looks at the anti-alcohol movement around the globe through the experiences of pro-temperance leaders like Thomas Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Lenin, Leo Tolstoy, and anti-colonial activists in India. Schrad argues that temperance wasn't "Americanexceptionalism" at all, but rather one of the most broad-based and successful transnational social movements of the modern era. In fact, Schrad offers a fundamental re-appraisal of this colorful era to reveal that temperance forces frequently aligned with progressivism, social justice, liberalself-determination, democratic socialism, labor rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights. By placing the temperance movement in a deep global context, he forces us to fundamentally rethink all that we think we know about the movement. Rather than a motley collection of puritanical Americanevangelicals, the global temperance movement advocated communal self-protection against the corrupt and predatory "liquor machine" that had become exceedingly rich off the misery and addictions of the poor around the world, from the slums of South Asia to central Europe to the Indian reservations ofthe American west.Unlike many traditional "dry" histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers havebeen led to believe.

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0190841575

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Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

By: Mark Biondich

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Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

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This is a work for political scientists and other specialists in the area."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mark Miller's One

By: Mark MIller

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Mark Miller's One

By: Mark MIller

Welcome to a spiritual anthology examining True-Life experiences of Authors and their Faith. Expect to discover what it means to have faith, no matter what that faith is and no matter where it lives. Remember that we are all part of this One World. I think it has grown beyond that. What's more, it has really taught me a lot. A myriad of talented authors opened my eyes. I felt like they stuck out their hand and when I grabbed hold, they carried me around the world. Along the way, I watched them learn, live, fall in love, and even confront death. We shared more than one out-of-body experience and time-travelled. The best part is that it is all true. These experiences are honest and emotional. Time and again, they bared deeply personal parts of themselves, taking risks that allowed we readers to become that much richer for looking into their lives. I hope that you get as much out of these stories as I did." Thank you, Mark Miller www.MyHelpingHandsPress.org Connect with all of the Authors of One www.Facebook.com/MarkMillersOne

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The Balkans

The Balkans

The Balkans

The Balkans

Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

Annihilation

Annihilation

Devastation

Devastation

A History of Humanitarian Intervention

A History of Humanitarian Intervention

Smashing the Liquor Machine

Smashing the Liquor Machine

Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

Stjepan Radi?, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928

Mark Miller's One

Mark Miller's One

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