Description |
1 online resource (xv, 299 p.) |
Series |
Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights |
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Studies in genocide.
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Contents |
Definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing -- The heritage of horrors -- Balkan Wars 1912-1913 : an unrecognized genocide. Epilogue : World War I as the Third Balkan War ; The Greek-Turkish Wars -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Western Balkans. Preliminary philosophical and theological concerns ; Genocide in the "Independent State of Croatia" ; Genocidal aspects of Italian occupational authorities in Yugoslav lands ; Slovenia ; Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Northeastern and Central Balkans. Belgrade and Serbia proper ; Backa and Baranja under Hungarian occupation ; The fate of the Yugoslav Army's Jewish POWs ; Montenegro ; Albania and Kosovo -- Massacres and ethnic cleansing by Cetniks ; Genocide against Roma (Gypsies) -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Southeastern Balkans. Bulgarian Jews not deported to death camps ; Macedonia ; Greece under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation -- Retaliatory genocides against wartime enemies. Genocide of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans ; Massacres of Hungarians ; Ethnic cleansing of Italians ; Bleiburg and the fate of Ustase and other militaries collaborating with the Axis -- Ethnic cleansing during Yugoslavia's wars of disintegration in the 1990s. The context ; Contentious analytical issues -- War in Croatia. Overview of the war ; Was it genocide and/or ethnic cleansing? War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Problems leading to the war ; Major events of the war ; The horrors of ethnic cleansing ; The Srebrenica genocide ; Genocidal rape ; Did genocide occur in Bosnia and Herzegovina? ; Appendix [translation of a segmant of the book Ubijanje smrti (The killing of death) by Jasmin Imamovic] -- Protracted conflict and war in Kosovo. Overview of Serbian-Kosovar Albanian relationships, 1945-1999 ; Overview of the War of 1999 ; The destruction of Serbian Orthodox holy places ; Ethnic cleansing in reverse ; Did genocides and/or ethnic cleansing occur in Kosovo? -- International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia -- Onward into the twenty-first century : a postscript. Threat of genocide averted in Macedonia ; Prospects for the Balkans -- Time line |
Summary |
Details the history of the three major waves of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Balkan peninsula and Yugoslavia during the twentieth century |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Genocide -- Balkan Peninsula -- History
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Genocide -- Yugoslavia -- History
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Ethnic conflict -- Balkan Peninsula -- History
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Ethnic conflict -- Yugoslavia -- History
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Balkan Peninsula
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Yugoslavia
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Balkan Peninsula
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Yugoslavia
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities.
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Atrocities
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Ethnic conflict
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Genocide
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Jugoslawienkriege
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Völkermord
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Balkan Peninsula
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Yugoslavia
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Balkanhalbinsel
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021679539 |
ISBN |
9781442206656 |
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1283447061 |
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9781283447065 |
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1442206640 |
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9781442206649 |
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9786613447067 |
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6613447064 |
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1442206659 |
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