Description:
Interwar European minority questions have been predominantly discussed in the context of Eastern Europe until now. This open access book challenges that geographical emphasis by examining both Eastern and Western European experiences. It thus lays the foundation for a new comparative international history of the relations between national majorities and minorities in Europe after the Great War. Building on the assumption that nationalist conflicts are based on dynamic interactions between multiple actors, this book brings together different perspectives and methodological approaches (political, social and transnational) to provide a comprehensive account of minority questions between the two World Wars.
With contributions from leading academics and emerging scholars based in Austria, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA among others, Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe is a wide-ranging study which is firmly anchored in the history of the transition from empires to nation-states as well as in the history of human rights and the nation-state.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Brief description: Mona Bieling is a doctoral student at the Department of International History & Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her PhD dissertation is entitled "Landscape and Power in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1948."
Review Quotes: This is an outstanding collection of essays on the complex relationship between minorities and nationalizing states in Interwar Europe. Most authors use a refreshing comparative, transnational or bottom-up approach, while studying the impact of Wilson's right of self-determination in both Eastern and Western Europe
Eric Storm, Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands