Philipp Ther is professor of Central European history at the University of Vienna. His books include Europe since 1989: A History (Princeton), The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe, and Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe. He lives in Vienna.
Ther is careful to bring the people involved and the societies that receive them into the equation. The numbers are eye-watering and the time period involved staggering. . . . Essential reading. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy * A wide-ranging and detailed history . . . . This stimulating volume is perhaps the most complete history of population movements in Europe's modern era and will find a place on the shelves of everyone who would understand the world in which we live now. ---Derek Hawes, Journal of Contemporary European Studies An eye-opening and comprehensive account of population movements over the last 500 years. * Paradigm Explorer *