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Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction: The Holocaust and the genocides in Europe; Definitions; Approaches; 1 Origins of genocide and paths to genocide; Colonialism and imperialism; Conquest of the Americas; The scramble for Africa and the Congo; German Southwest Africa; Settler society and aborigines in Australia; From imperialism to genocide?; Politics and science of identity; Nationalism; Racism and anti-Semitism; Racial science; Changing political boundaries and forms of government; The First World War; The Second World War.

The first comprehensive history of ethnic cleansing in the making of modern Europe, a process that involved the murder and forced migration of tens of millions of people. ""An excellent study, vitally necessary for all those who want to understand the horrors of ethnic cleansing.""--John Weiss

Abstract: Pursuit of invulnerability proliferated in the modern era when individuals took objects into battle or followed practices promising immunity from harm. Western contemporaries wrote off these beliefs as primitive, and later scholars minimized their importance, arguing that colonial authorities exaggerated invulnerability to obscure economic grievances. To date, invulnerability has gained attention for its role in millenarianism. Adopting a case study approach Michael Adas argued that groups that lost power supported prophetic movements. However, the frequency of invulnerability shows the value of a geographic approach. This article charts locations and timing of invulnerability practices to map out zones of invulnerability. This broader approach helps to identify causes for the proliferation of invulnerability. Invulnerability did not create a unified or proto-nationalist response to rapid imperial expansion and settler societies, but invulnerability reflected the shock and disorientation of the period on a global scale.

AbstractThe vast body of inquiry into nationalism has traditionally seen Europe as a main center for the emergence of nationalism, but scholars of "national indifference" have countered with the idea that nationalism may not matter much at all as a motive for most people. The concept of national indifference calls into question the power of nationalism as a motive for action and the mass appeal of nationalism. Studies of national indifference have constructed an alternative non-national narrative, but face particular challenges accounting for major themes and episodes of discrimination and violence. At its core, national indifference paradoxically both rejects and accepts binary notions of identity and incorporates binary assumptions about motives. It is tempting to resolve the contest between parallel accounts of pervasive, powerful nationalism and national indifference by choosing a victor, but this contrast between models shows the fluidity and dynamism of nationalism. The debate between the now classic accounts of nationalism and the alternative of national indifference points to the importance of often overlooked variables: frames and sense of time.

Intro -- From Recovery to Catastrophe -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Stabilization and State Expansion -- Chapter 2. State Expansion and Democratization -- Chapter 3. Municipal Finance and Destabilization -- Chapter 4. Cities and Distributional Conflict -- Chapter 5. Cities and the Weimar Productivity Debate -- Chapter 6. Defining the Civic Public -- Chapter 7. State and Society -- Conclusion -- Sources and Select Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A fragile start -- Chapter 2: The rise of farming -- Chapter 3: The rise and fall of civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages -- Chapter 5: The Little Ice Age -- Chapter 6: Humans take over -- Chapter 7: The future is now -- Chapter 8: Projections and uncertainties -- Chapter 9: Responses to climate change -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.