Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Contributors to Volume IV
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Part I Race, Religion and Nationalism
- Part II Intimate and Gendered Violence
- Part III Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
- Part IV The State, Revolution and Social Change
- 17 Change and Continuity in Collective Violence in France, 1780–1880
- 18 Geographies of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1948
- 19 Concentration Camps
- 20 Violence in Revolutionary China, 1949–1963
- 21 Anti-Communist Violence in Indonesia, 1965–1966
- 22 The Violence of the Cold War
- 23 Quotidian Violence in the French Empire, 1890–1940
- 24 Violence, the State and Revolution in Latin America
- 25 Structural Violence during the Cambodian Genocide, 1975–1979
- 26 The Origins of Modern Terrorism
- Part V Representations and Constructions of Violence
- Index
- References
18 - Geographies of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1948
from Part IV - The State, Revolution and Social Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- The Cambridge History of Violence
- The Cambridge World History of Violence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Contributors to Volume IV
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Part I Race, Religion and Nationalism
- Part II Intimate and Gendered Violence
- Part III Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
- Part IV The State, Revolution and Social Change
- 17 Change and Continuity in Collective Violence in France, 1780–1880
- 18 Geographies of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1948
- 19 Concentration Camps
- 20 Violence in Revolutionary China, 1949–1963
- 21 Anti-Communist Violence in Indonesia, 1965–1966
- 22 The Violence of the Cold War
- 23 Quotidian Violence in the French Empire, 1890–1940
- 24 Violence, the State and Revolution in Latin America
- 25 Structural Violence during the Cambodian Genocide, 1975–1979
- 26 The Origins of Modern Terrorism
- Part V Representations and Constructions of Violence
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the genocidal intersection between political history and ethnographic geography in European or near-European regions where the traditional continental empires met the emerging hegemony of Western nation-states. In particular it considers how and why the introduction of nationalism proved toxic in these multicultural ‘rimlands’, with Macedonia and Thrace as illustrative examples. Here the wartime shattering of empires (1912-1948) and their succession by fiercely nationalist competitors resulted in repeated spasms of extreme zero-sum violence whose key outcome was the ‘unmixing of peoples’ by mass deportation, and/or annihilation.
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- The Cambridge World History of Violence , pp. 367 - 385Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020