Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World

by Claudia B. Haake and Richard Bessel

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199698724
• ISBN13: 9780199698721
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: OUP/German Historical Institute London
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"