War and Population Displacement: Lessons of History (LSE Studies in Spanish History) - Hardcover

 
9781845199012: War and Population Displacement: Lessons of History (LSE Studies in Spanish History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1845199014 ISBN 13: 9781845199012
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently announced that the number of displaced persons caused by wars and conflicts, estimated at more than 65 million, has reached the highest level ever recorded. This book explores the reality by examining some significant population displacements and/or deportations caused by armed conflict. Throughout human history people not directly involved in wars have endured its consequences death, famine, destruction, illness, pillage, rape, robbery. These effects of war have become more globalized, resulting in migration in search of a better place to live or to find safety and security. Migration represents an indisputable reality found in every time and culture since prehistoric times until today, seen recently in the Mediterranean, Africa, and Asia. Armed conflict brings with it population displacement: refugees fleeing the dangers of war, dislodgement by invaders or regime change, population migration with expansionist purposes. These phenomena have not been adequately studied from a historical perspective. Cast in the mold of war and society studies, this book, endorsed by the Spanish Association of Military History, works to fulfill a historiographic need, covering twelve relevant dislodgments caused by wars in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Modern and Contemporary History, and the present.

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About the Authors

Fernando Puell de la Villa is Professor of Military History at the University Institute General Gutierrez Mellado, Madrid. He has published extensively on military matters, and is President of the Spanish Association of Military History.

David Garcia Hernan is Chairman of the Department of Humanities and Full Professor of Modern History at Carlos III University, Madrid. He has published widely on contemporary history and been a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1845199014
ISBN 13 
9781845199012
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320
Editor
Villa Fernando Puell De La, Hernan David Garcia