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In war's wake : Europe's displaced persons in the postwar order
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- Creator
- Gerald Daniel Cohen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- viii, 237 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195399684, 9780195399684
- OCLC
- ocn770224883, ocn701622847
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : the last million -- The battle of the refugee : DPs and the making of the Cold War West -- Who is a refugee? : from victors' justice to anticommunism -- Care and maintenance : the new face of international humanitarianism -- Displaced persons in the human rights revolution -- Surplus manpower, surplus population -- Extraterritorial Jews : refugee humanitarianism and the advent of Jewish statehood -- Epilogue : the golden age of European refugees, 1945-1960
Subjects
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Europe.
- Refugees -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
- Refugees -- Government policy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
- Jewish refugees -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
- Jews -- Europe -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
- Humanitarianism -- History -- 20th century.
- Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.