Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521182042 ISBN 13: 9780521182041

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home.

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About the Authors

Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University. He is author of Genocide on Trial (2001), The Great Game of Genocide (2005) and The Final Solution: A Genocide (2009) and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2010).

Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for War Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth (2005), winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521182042
• ISBN 13: 9780521182041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Bloxham Donald, Gerwarth Robert