Twice a Stranger The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (OBEI)

Clark, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0674032225 / ISBN 13: 9780674032224

Published by Harvard Univ Pr, 2009

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274 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twice a Stranger The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (OBEI)
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674032225
• ISBN 13: 9780674032224
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.35 kilograms

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Synopsis

In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece to Turkey. The transfer was hailed as a solution to the problem of minorities who could not coexist. Both governments saw the exchange as a chance to create societies of a single culture. The opinions and feelings of those uprooted from their native soil were never solicited. In an evocative book, Bruce Clark draws on new archival research in Turkey and Greece as well as interviews with surviving participants to examine this unprecedented exercise in ethnic engineering. He examines how the exchange was negotiated and how people on both sides came to terms with new lands and identities.

About the Author

Bruce Clark is the religion and public policy blog editor of The Economist, and previously edited the international news section, covered religion and politics for the Foreign Department, and was International Security Editor. He has also covered international events for Financial Times, The Times, and Reuters.