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The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

By Peter Gatrell

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2019
ISBN
0465093612, 9780465093618
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
64 MB (66675283 bytes)
Pages
576\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-08-30 16:22:16

Description

An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history of Europe has always been one of people on the move. The end of World War II left Europe in a state of confusion with many Europeans virtually stateless. Later, as former colonial states gained national independence, colonists and their supporters migrated to often-unwelcoming metropoles. The collapse of communism in 1989 marked another fundamental turning point. Gatrell places migration at the center of post-war European history, and the aspirations of migrants themselves at the center of the story of migration. This is an urgent history that will reshape our understanding of modern Europe.

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