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Defending the Rights of Others
Contributor(s): Fink, Carole (Author)
ISBN: 0521838371     ISBN-13: 9780521838375
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $128.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2004
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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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Renaissance
- History | Jewish - General
- Political Science | Civil Rights
Dewey: 323.119
LCCN: 2003056914
Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.44" W x 9.22" (1.65 lbs) 450 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.