Chapter 1. Preconditions of ethnic cleansing -- The ideology of modern nationalism -- The nation-state in theory and practice -- "Minority problems" -- European modernity -- Christian intolerance -- Chapter 2. Ethnic cleansing as an instrument of international politics: 1912-25 -- The Balkan Wars and their consequences -- Deportations in World War I -- Postwar migrations -- Triage in Alsace -- The protection and reduction of minorities in the Paris Peace Treaties -- The Treaty of Lausanne -- Chapter 3. Total war and total cleansing: 1938-44 -- From the Munich Agreement to World War II -- Heim ins Reich -- Under Nazi occupation -- More cases in Germany's sphere of influence -- Soviet ethnic cleansing -- Wars within the war : the Ukrainian-Polish and the Serbo-Croatian Conflicts -- Ethnic cleansing of Jews -- Chapter 4. The big sweep: postwar Europe and beyond 1944-48 -- Another escalation: the Allied plans 1943-45 -- The westward sweep of Poles -- De-Germanizing Poland and Czechoslovakia -- Homogenizing postwar Poland -- Back to interwar models: Hungarians outside Hungary -- Resettling the Polish and Czech borderlands -- Soviet restraint and retribution -- At the fault lines of the Cold War -- On the British track: India and Palestine -- Chapter 5. Ghosts of the past: the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus: 1991-99 -- The breakup of Yugoslavia -- Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Kosovo -- Conflicts in the Caucasus compared -- Conclusion and historical typology -- The four phases of ethnic cleansing -- Ethnic cleansing during wars and after wars -- Forms of violence -- Unregulated and contractual ethnic cleansing -- Ethnic cleansing and genocide -- Retrospective and forward-looking ethnic cleansing -- The "British track" -- Lessons learnt? -- Annotated bibliography -- Comprehensive histories of ethnic cleansing -- Literature on the resettlement of ethnically cleansed regions -- Literature on remembrance and collective memory -- Literature on individual countries.
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