| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in international relations ; 84
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Cambridge studies in international relations ; 84.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index. |
| Contents |
State formation and pathological homogenisation -- The "other" within Christian Europe: state building in early modern Spain -- State building in early modern France: Louis XIV and the Huguenots -- Pathological state building and Turkish state building: the Armenian genocide of 1915-1916 -- "Ethnic cleansing" and the breakup of Yugoslavia -- Evolving international norms -- On the threshold: the Czech Republic and Macedonia. |
| Summary |
"Why have forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide been an enduring feature of the modern state system? In this ground-breaking book, Heather Rae locates these practices of 'pathological homogenisation' in the processes of state-building. Political elites have repeatedly used available cultural resources to redefine bounded political communities as exclusive moral communities, from which outsiders must be expelled. Showing that these practices predate the age of nationalism, Rae examines cases from both the pre-nationalist and nationalist eras: the expulsion of the Jews from fifteenth-century Spain, the persecution of the Huguenots under Louis XIV and, in the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide and the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. She argues that those atrocities have prompted the development of international norms of legitimate state behaviour that increasingly define sovereignty as conditional. Rae concludes by examining two 'threshold' cases - the Czech Republic and Macedonia - to identify the factors that may inhibit pathological homogenisation as a method of state-building."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forced migration -- History.
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Forced migration. |
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History. |
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Population transfers -- History.
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Population transfers. |
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Genocide -- History.
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Genocide. |
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Political atrocities -- History.
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Political atrocities. |
| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rae, Heather. State identities and the homogenisation of peoples. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002 0521792843 (DLC) 2002016588 (OCoLC)48810551 |
| ISBN |
0511020295 (electronic book) |
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9780511020292 (electronic book) |
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9780521792844 (hardback) |
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0521792843 (hardback) |
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0511047169 (electronic book) |
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9780511047169 (electronic book) |
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9780511491627 (electronic book) |
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051149162X (electronic book) |
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052179708X (paperback) |
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9780521797085 |
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