David Wester Gerlach

The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing

The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands After World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781316647196
• ISBN-10: 1316647196
• Artikelnr.: 55914223

Autorenporträt

David Wester Gerlach is Associate Professor at Saint Peter's University, New Jersey. His current research explores restitution, reparation, and other compensation programs stemming from World War II, alongside the study of forced migration. He was awarded a Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture by the American Council on Germany in 2017, the R. John Rath Prize for Best Article in the 2007 Austrian History Yearbook, and the 2006-7 Best Dissertation by the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. In the wake of war: expulsions, violence and borderland life
2. National divisions: resettlement, local power and settler conflicts
3. Persian rugs and well-appointed farms: the politics of expropriation
4. German workers: Czech settlers and labor politics
5. Consolidating borderland industries: from confiscation to nationalization
6. borderlands transformed: diverse communities and the construction of socialism
Conclusion.