Ethnic Cleansing

by Bell-Fialkoff, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780312223366
• ISBN10: 0312223366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-04
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

"Ethnic Cleansing" has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siegrave;cle . In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa, whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and showing how, in different times and places, the most varied criteria have been used to isolate and destroy previously accepted or even completely unnoticed groups. "Cleansing" has been based on race, gender, class, sexual preference, and religion and has been a constant evil in world history. The need to understand its reemergence in the wake of communism's collapse is at the center of this important book.

Author Biography

Andrew Bell-Fialkoff holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. He is series consultant for the World in Conflict series at Lerner Publications. He lives in Bradford, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Lists of Figures, Maps, and Tables	vii	(2)
Acknowledgments	ix	(4)
Preface	xiii
Introduction: What is Population Cleansing?	1	(6)
PART I	7	(112)
1. Cleansing: A Historical Overview	7	(44)
2. A Typology of Cleansing	51	(6)
3. Cleansing as a Metonym of Collective Identity	57	(62)
PART II	119	(116)
4. Areas of Conflict: Which Ones to Choose?	119	(4)
5. Bosnia	123	(14)
6. Cyprus	137	(6)
7. Karabakh	143	(14)
8. Kosovo	157	(8)
9. The Palestinian Problem	165	(8)
10. The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics	173	(8)
11. Rwanda and Burundi	181	(6)
12. Sri Lanka	187	(8)
13. Transylvania	195	(8)
14. Ulster	203	(32)
PART III	235	(46)
15. Solving Irreconcilable Ethnic Conflicts	235	(20)
17. Possible Solutions	255	(26)
Conclusions	281	(6)
Appendix	287	(2)
Notes	289	(33)
Selected Bibliography	322	(11)
Index	333

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