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Author:   Richard Bessel (Professor of 20th Century History, University of York) ,  Claudia B. Haake (Lecturer in History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.713kg
ISBN:  

9780199561957

ISBN 10:   0199561958
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   09 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

Part I: Introductory Remarks 1: Richard Bessel and Claudia B. Haake: Introduction 2: Alf Lüdtke: Explaining Forced Migration Part II: Forced Removal and Indigenous Peoples 3: Tim Alan Garrison: On the Trail of Tears: Daniel Butrick's Record of the Removal of the Cherokees 4: Claudia B. Haake: Breaking the Bonds of People and Land 5: Donald L. Fixico: The Federal Indian Relocation Programme of the 1950s and the Urbanization of Indian Identity 6: Mark Copland: Calculating Lives: The Number and Narrative of Removals in Queensland, 1859-1972 7: Paul E. Lovejoy: The Slave Trade as Enforced Migration in the Central Sudan of West Africa Part III: Forced Removal and War 8: Donald Bloxham: The Great Unweaving: The Removal of Peoples in Europe, 1875-1949 9: Ronald Grigor Suny: Explaining Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire 10: Shane O'Rourke: Trial Run: The Deportation of the Terek Cossacks 1920 11: Detlef Brandes: National and International Planning of the 'Transfer' of Germans from Czechoslovakia and Poland 12: Gyanendra Pandey: 'Nobody's People': The Dalits of Punjab in the Forced Removal of 1947 13: Ian Talbot: The 1947 Partition of India and Migration: A Comparative Study of Punjab and Bengal 14: Benny Morris: Explaining Transfer: Zionist Thinking and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Part IV: Forced Removal in Post-Colonial Times 15: Christian Gerlach: Sustainable Violence: Mass Resettlement, Strategic Villages, and Militias in Anti-Guerrilla Warfare 16: Andrea Smith: Coerced or Free? Narrating the Reverse Migrations of Decolonization Part V: Concluding Thoughts 17: Joanna de Groot: Removing Peoples in the 'Modern' World: A Comparative Perspective

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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 *

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

Author Information

Richard Bessel is Professor of 20th Century History at the University of York. Claudia B. Haake is Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

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