Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe, Benjamin Lieberman (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006), vxi + 396 pp., 27.50 cloth
Terrible Fate comprehensively illustrates the history of ethnic cleansing in a Europe with extensively shifting borders. The book ranges from Central Asia to the Middle East, and from Anatolia to Central Europe—one of its compelling features. This is appropriate, given that events in the Caucasus, C...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-368 |
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| Summary: | Terrible Fate comprehensively illustrates the history of ethnic cleansing in a Europe with extensively shifting borders. The book ranges from Central Asia to the Middle East, and from Anatolia to Central Europe—one of its compelling features. This is appropriate, given that events in the Caucasus, Cyprus, and Palestine have been as formative for Europe as developments in its geographic core., If the individual chapters offer excellent introductions to ethnic cleansing in various places, they also make depressing reading. Lieberman draws effectively on consular dispatches, newspaper reports, and memoirs to convey cruel realities. All too often, we see back and forth ethnic cleansings: one group targets another population, only to suffer a similar fate when political or military tides shift. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn037 |