ISBN10: 1571815627, ISBN13: 9781571815620, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Softcover 2003. New edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 1571815627, ISBN13: 9781571815620, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'This volume is a long overdue endeavour to tackle the thorny and delicate issue of the compulsory population exchange . . . The argumentative force of the volume lies in the careful analysis of the contradictory and ambiguous ramifications of the convention.' -The Greek Review of Social ResearchFollowing the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the 1923 Lausanne Convention specified the first internationally ratified compulsory population exchange. It proved to be a watershed in the eastern Mediterranean, having far-reaching ramifications both for the new Turkish Republic, and for Greece which hadto absorb over a million refugees. Known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe by the Greeks, it marked the establishment of the independent nation state for the Turks. The consequences of this event have received surprisingly little attention despite the considerable relevance for the contemporary situation in the Balkans. This volume addresses the challenge of writing history from both sides of the Aegean and provides, for the first time, a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue across national boundaries. Renée Hirschon was educated at the universities of Cape Town, Chicago and Oxford. Intensive fieldwork among the Asia Minor refugees settled in Piraeus resulted in the monograph 'Heirs of the ...