Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection,1878–1938, Carole Fink (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), xxvii + 420 pp., cloth 80.00, pbk. 29.99
As Carole Fink acknowledges in the opening pages of Defending the Rights of Others, her book is not the first “to investigate the international dimensions of the minorities question in Eastern Europe” (p. xvii). Yet what distinguishes her impressive study from others is its broad compass—a sixty-yea...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 324-326 |
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| Summary: | As Carole Fink acknowledges in the opening pages of Defending the Rights of Others, her book is not the first “to investigate the international dimensions of the minorities question in Eastern Europe” (p. xvii). Yet what distinguishes her impressive study from others is its broad compass—a sixty-year span starting with the 1878 Congress of Berlin and ending on the eve of the Second World War—as well an exceptional diversity of primary sources. The author has crafted an engaging narrative of the triangular relationship in which the Great Powers, the East European “minority states,” and the advocates of minority rights are inextricably entangled. As such, her book carefully documents the advent of modern human rights diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl012 |