Carole Fink

Defending the Rights of Others

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When the Cold War ended between 1989 and 1991, statesmen and scholars reached back to the period after World War I when the victors devised minority treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe. This book is a study of the entire period between 1878 and 1938, when the great powers established a system of external supervision to reduce the threats in Europe's most volatile regions of irredentism, persecution and uncontrolled waves of westward migration. It is a study of the strengths and weaknesses of an early state of international human rights diplomacy as practised by rival and often uninformed Western political leaders, by ardent but divided Jewish advocates, and also by aggressive state minority champions, in the tumultuous age of nationalism and imperialism, bolshevism and fascism between Bismarck and Hitler.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838375
• ISBN-10: 0521838371
• Artikelnr.: 13253313

Autorenporträt

Carole Fink is the Professor of European History at the Ohio State University. She has written several books, including The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 (1984), which was awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, and Marc Bloch: A Life in History (Cambridge University Press, 1989), which has been translated into five languages.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps; List of photographs; Preface; Abbreviations; A note on place and personal names; Part I. From Empires to New States: 1. Prologue: the Congress of Berlin; 2. Bucharest, August 1913; 3. The Great War; 4. Lemberg; Part II. The Minority Treaties: 5. Paris; 6. Pinsk; 7. May; 8. The 'Little Versailles'; Part III. A New Era of Minority Rights?: 9. Geneva; 10. Berlin; 11. Epilogue: the road to Munich; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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List of maps
List of photographs
Preface
Abbreviations
A note on place and personal names
Part I. From Empires to New States: 1. Prologue: the Congress of Berlin
2. Bucharest, August 1913
3. The Great War
4. Lemberg
Part II. The Minority Treaties: 5. Paris
6. Pinsk
7. May
8. The 'Little Versailles'
Part III. A New Era of Minority Rights?: 9. Geneva
10. Berlin
11. Epilogue: the road to Munich
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.

Rezensionen

"Carole Fink's Defending the Rights of Others is a masterpiece of exhaustive research, engaging narrative, and lucid analysis that revives and reinterprets the long neglected but critically important subject of the campaign by the European powers to afford protection to religious and ethnic minorities within the new states in Eastern Europe that were carved out of the Ottoman, Habsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern Empires...this work sets a new standard of scholarship in the field of international history." William R. Keylor, Professor of History and International Relations and Director of the International History Institute, Boston University