| Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878 1938 Contributor(s): Fink, Carole (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521029945 ISBN-13: 9780521029940 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Statesmen and scholars were inspired by a period after World War I (when the victors devised Minority Treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe) at the time that the Cold War ended between 1989-1991. This book is the first study of that 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 practiced by rival and often-uninformed Western political leaders, ardent but divided Jewish advocates, and aggressive state minority champions, in the tumultuous age of nationalism and imperialism, Bolshevism and fascism between Bismarck and Hitler. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.38 lbs) 452 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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Contributor Bio(s): Fink, Carole: - 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. |
